Gwen Raverat

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...

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. Frances's...

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 ...

Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin , a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth , was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College . According to Frances's cousin Gwen Darwin , a later...

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...

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 .

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 ,...

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...

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...

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

The Poetry Bookshop published Frances Cornford 's Spring Morning, with eight small woodcuts by her cousin Gwen Raverat .

Frances Cornford 's Mountains and Molehills, illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raverat , was published by Cambridge University Press .

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...

An edition of 1948 was illustrated by Gwen Raverat .

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. Some of Raverat 's woodcuts were...