Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Gwen Raverat
Standard Name: Raverat, Gwen
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Rupert Brooke | RB
's letters and papers are widely scattered in libraries and archives. Cambridge University Library
holds his letters to his mother, to Frances Cornford
, and to Gwen Raverat
, among others. |
Textual Production | Frances Cornford | When Frances Cornford
was a child, she and her cousin Gwen
were the two chief writers of the annual Darwin family Christmas play. This was written in Gilbert
and Sullivan
style, with complicated plots and... |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Mountains and Molehills. Cambridge University Press. 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 | |
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... |
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... |
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
,... |
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. 192 Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 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
. |
Timeline
By December 1952: Woodcut-engraver Gwen Raverat, née Darwin,...
Women writers item
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 et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
Dowson, Jane et al. “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.