Cambridge University Press

Gwen Raverat

Standard Name: Raverat, Gwen

Connections

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Cultural formation	Frances Cornford	She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge 's The Daisy Chain, she had...
Education	Frances Cornford	Although her step-brother Bernard went to Eton , Frances Cornford received her education at home, and sometimes shared classes with her nearby cousins, one of whom was Gwen Darwin , later Raverat. Cornford, Hugh, Gwen Raverat, Christopher Cornford, Frances Cornford, Gwen Raverat, and Christopher Cornford. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxviii Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1977. 63-4 Frances's...
Family and Intimate relationships	Dorothy Bussy	DB 's youngest sister, Marjorie Colville (Gumbo) Strachey (1882-1964), was a teacher, suffragist, writer, and member of the group Woolf called the Neo-Pagans group (which included Rupert Brooke , Gwen Raverat , Ka Cox ...
Family and Intimate relationships	Frances Cornford	Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin , a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth , was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College . Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1977. 192 Cornford, Hugh, Gwen Raverat, Christopher Cornford, Frances Cornford, Gwen Raverat, and Christopher Cornford. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxvii According to Frances's cousin Gwen Darwin , a later...
Family and Intimate relationships	Frances Cornford	For Christmas 1908, following Frances's engagement, Gwen Darwin wrote a skit called The Importance of Being Frank. All the characters in this piece were called either Francis or Frances, a circumstance leading to endless...
Family and Intimate relationships	Charles Darwin	This remarkable family produced several women writers. Julia Wedgwood was CD 's niece by marriage; his grand-daughters included the poet Frances Cornford and the artist and memoirist Gwen Raverat .
Friends, Associates	Virginia Woolf	Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...
Material Conditions of Writing	Evelyn Sharp	The piece was published the same year. ES used stories by Richard Garnett and Nathaniel Hawthorne as sources. She had been working on her lyrics since June 1927, when she sent Vaughan Williams the fruits...
Occupation	Frances Cornford	Because the play was staged out of term, women were able to participate. Jane Harrison (who knew Frances well, and had been an intimate friend of her mother) recruited several women from Newnham College as...
Publishing	Charlotte Yonge	An edition of 1948 was illustrated by Gwen Raverat . British Library Catalogue.
Publishing	Frances Cornford	The Poetry Bookshop published Frances Cornford 's Spring Morning, with eight small woodcuts by her cousin Gwen Raverat . “Notice: Spring Morning”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 696, p. 172. 172 British Library Catalogue.
Publishing	Frances Cornford	Frances Cornford 's Mountains and Molehills, illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raverat , was published by Cambridge University Press . British Library Catalogue. Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Mountains and Molehills. Cambridge University Press, 1934. vi
Publishing	Eleanor Farjeon	EF contributed a piece of light verse each day to the Daily Herald, which appeared under the name of Tomfool. These were collected in 1920 in a volume entitled Tomfooleries. If she...
Publishing	Vita Sackville-West	The publisher of this and later editions was Heinemann . It was reprinted in fourteen impressions that year, and by 1971, 100,000 copies had been sold in Britain alone, as well as appearing in VSW
Reception	Frances Cornford	The Times reviewer wrote that the poems had the rare gift . . . of simple, naive utterance, successful only, as here, when there is something worth uttering. “Notice: Spring Morning”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 696, p. 172. 172 Some of Raverat 's woodcuts were...

Timeline

By December 1952

Woodcut-engraver Gwen Raverat, née Darwin , published Period Piece, her extremely popular memoir of her Victorian childhood in Cambridge; by 1975 it had sold 120,000 copies in Britain alone.