Eric Gill

Standard Name: Gill, Eric

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Taylor
Through the Knox family the then Betty Coles met the sculptor Eric Gill , who also lived nearby. She helped in his workshop and became and remained his friend. She may perhaps have posed for...
Friends, Associates Valentine Ackland
After she left her husband, VA spent a good deal of time at Chaldon in Dorset. There, she was able to write and join a supportive community of artistic friends, including Theodore Powys and...
Friends, Associates Frances Cornford
Among friends entertained regularly or occasionally at Conduit Head were William Rothenstein , Eric Gill , Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson , Bertrand Russell , and Rabindranath Tagore .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Friends, Associates Frances Cornford
FC also developed friendships, although not close ones, with Walter de la Mare , Eric Gill , Bertrand Russell , Siegfried Sassoon , Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams, and Virginia Woolf .
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.
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Publishing Frances Cornford
The Poetry Bookshop published Frances Cornford 's Autumn Midnight, a selection of previously printed poems with wood engravings by Eric Gill .
Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923.
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Textual Features Elizabeth Taylor
Brocard Sewell discerned in this novel an accurate sketch, under fictional names, of members of Eric Gill 's circle.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
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The protagonist, Cressy, grows up in the stifling and isolated environment of an arts-and-crafts Catholic...

Timeline

April 1893
The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the Fine and Applied Arts was founded this month by Charles Holme and first edited by Cleeson White .
1903
The employment of an English sculptor, Eric Gill , by the German press Insel-Verlag represented the start of a vigorous, international influence in book design.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Macmillan, 1936.
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1907
Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, No. 2, pp. 33 - 5.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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1913
Cranach Presse was established in Weimar by Count Harry Kessler .
1916
St Dominic's Press was founded at Ditchling, Sussex, by Hilary Pepler .
1920
The Golden Cockerel Press was founded at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, by Harold Midgely Taylor and Gay Taylor .
1920
The Society of Wood Engravers was formed.
1927
The Perpetua Type by Eric Gill was cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation .
1931
Eric Gill and his son-in-law, René Hague , founded a press at Pigotts, Buckinghamshire.