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Gwen Raverat () was one of England's greatest wood-engravers and a leading figure in the revival of the art form in the 20th Century. She was the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, one of Rupert Brooke's Neo-Pagans and Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury group. Gwen Raverat () The granddaughter of naturalist Charles Darwin, Gwen Raverat was one of the first women to insist on Gwen Raverat book achieve professional training as an artist.

She attended the Slade School inquickly developing her own painterly style of wood-engraving. Gwen Raverat (), grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, was a leading figure in the revival of wood-engraving in the first half of the 20th of Rupert Brooke's Neo-Pagans and Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury group, her bestselling memoir, Period Piece is still in print 64 years after its first publication.

She has an extensive following; with work in galleries, museums and private Cited by: Not just what Gwen Raverat chose to write about in Period Piece, but also the way she wrote.

I wish I could find more that she has written. I have recommended it to friends & bought it through Amazon from an English bookseller for a gift. And this has put me on a search Gwen Raverat book more books about the Darwin family & about Gwen Raverat herself/5(44).

This book was written by Charles Darwin's granddaughter, Gwen Raverat, inand was about her life growing up. It was refreshing in the sense that, even though set in the Victorian era, there was a distinct lack of religious mores unusual for the time/5. 'A drawing of the world when I was young.' So Gwen Raverat, the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, which since its initial publication in has never been out of y evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of her eccentric relations, and of Cambridge society in a time when it was /5(59).

Gwen was a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, as was her closest friend and first cousin, the poet Frances Cornford. Gwen married the French painter Jacques Raverat in She became one of the leading wood engravers of the 20th Century.

Her childhood memoir, Period Piece, has never been out of print since it was first published in Location: 1 Hampton Hall, Warminster Road Bath, BA2 6SQ. Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family & Affections Frances Spalding Harvill £30, pp On 31 Maya strange fancy-dress party took place in a Cambridge garden that offers, in hindsight, a.

Gwen Raverat. likes. Gwen Raverat (–), was a celebrated English wood engraver & author. The granddaughter of Charles Darwin, she was one of Followers: This is a really lovely book, perfect for reading at bedtime or in the garden under the apple tree on a summer's afternoon.

Gwen Raverat writes vividly with chapters by theme rather than chronologically and and gives a rounded view of her childhood experiences and the Darwin family of uncles and aunts.5/5(5).

Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections. Frances Spalding. pp, Harvill, £ For those who succumb to its innocent charm, Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir, Period Piece, is Author: Alfred Hickling.

'The best of these Darwins is that they are cut out of rock - three taps is enough to convince one how immense is their solidarity.' So wrote Virginia Woolf affectionately of Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin.

In this first full biography, Frances Spalding looks beyond the artist Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir; Period Piece, and creates a fascinating and moving portrait of. Subtitled A Cambridge Childhood, Period Piece is the memoir of Gwen Raverat (), an art critic wood engraver and book illustrator as well as one of the founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers.

Despite coming from a family of considerable intellectual distinction (an ancestor was Josiah Wedgwood, her grandfather was Charles Darwin, and.

Pryor let me have a sneak peek at the Darwin room after the shop closed and kindly gave me a copy of his grandmother Gwen Raverat’s memoir, Period Piece. Over pudding we chatted about literary festivals, the Bookshop Band, his failed idea to return a portion of secondhand books’ resale value to the authors, and the latest Nobel Prize.

William: In the preface to her masterpiece of a childhood memoir, Period Piece, my grandmother, Gwen Raverat makes it clear that: Anne: This is a circular book. It does not begin at the beginning and go on to the end; it is all going on at the same time, sticking out like spokes of a wheel from a hub, which is me.

Classic of the Month: Period Piece by Gwen Raverat () Her book has the subtitle “A Cambridge Childhood,” which perfectly conveys the aim. This is not a comprehensive family history or autobiography, but a portrait of what it was like to grow up in a particular time and place.

Raverat was born inbut she begins two years. About Gwen Raverat: Gwen Mary Darwin was born in Cambridge in ; she was the daughter of Sir George Howard Darwin and his wife Maud, Lady Darwin, née /5. [I] Gwen Raverat, wood engraver / Joanna Selborne --Gwen Raverat, wood engraver --Technique --Single wood engravings --Book illustration --Colour wood engraving --A major artist in a minor field --References --Select bibliography --[II] Documentation: Books and prints / Lindsay Newman --Books: wood-engraved books &c illustrated by Gwen Raverat.

Not just what Gwen Raverat chose to write about in Period Piece, but also the way she wrote. I wish I could find more that she has written. I have recommended it to friends & bought it through Amazon from an English bookseller for a gift.

And this has put me on a search for more books about the Darwin family & about Gwen Raverat herself/5. Jacques Raverat was a French painter who died of MS aged 40 in Inhe had married Gwen Darwin, granddaughter of the evolutionist and also an artist.

They knew Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury well and when they moved to the south of France for his health, their friendship blossomed in a series of long and poignant letters. The crucial bond was that between Jacques and Virginia.

So wrote Virginia Woolf affectionately of Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. In this first full biography, Frances Spalding looks beyond the artist Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir; Period Piece, and creates a fascinating and moving portrait of Charles Darwin's : Random House.At the close ofBettrand Russell wrote to Gwen Raverat that he had been reading Period Piece “with the very greatest delight.” Raverat’s memories of childhood and coming of age during the final years of Victoria’s reign capture a young woman’s impressions of dons, eccentrics, and tradespeople in Cambridge during the : University of Michigan Press.Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections - Ebook written by Frances Spalding.

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