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
Gwen Raverat
Standard Name: Raverat, Gwen
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1977. 63-4 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | |
| Publishing | Charlotte Yonge | An edition of 1948 was illustrated by Gwen Raverat
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| 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. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Publishing | Frances Cornford | Frances Cornford
's Mountains and Molehills, illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raverat
, was published by Cambridge University Press
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Mountains and Molehills. Cambridge University Press, 1934. vi |
| 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 |
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.
Texts
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.
Dowson, Jane, Gwen Raverat, Christopher Cornford, Frances Cornford, Gwen Raverat, and Christopher Cornford. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xiii - xxv.
Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Mountains and Molehills. Cambridge University Press, 1934.
Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1977.
Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Spring Morning. Poetry Bookshop, 1915.