Eric Gill

Standard Name: Gill, Eric

Connections

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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.
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The protagonist, Cressy, grows up in the stifling and isolated environment of an arts-and-crafts Catholic...
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.
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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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
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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...

Timeline

April 1893: The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the...

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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...

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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.
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1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...

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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, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 33-5.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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1913: Cranach Presse was established in Weimar...

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1913

Cranach Presse was established in Weimar by Count Harry Kessler .

1916: St Dominic's Press was founded at Ditchling,...

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1916

St Dominic's Press was founded at Ditchling, Sussex, by Hilary Pepler .

1920: The Society of Wood Engravers was formed...

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1920

1920: The Golden Cockerel Press was founded at...

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1920

The Golden Cockerel Press was founded at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, by Harold Midgely Taylor and Gay Taylor .

1927: The Perpetua Type by Eric Gill was cut by...

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1927

The Perpetua Type by Eric Gill was cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation .

1931: Eric Gill and his son-in-law, René Hague,...

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1931

Eric Gill and his son-in-law, René Hague , founded a press at Pigotts, Buckinghamshire.

Texts

Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923.