Grantchester, near Cambridge. Wood engraving by Gwen Raverat, 1935.
Gwen Raverat, BORN 1885
WOOD ENGRAVING ARTIST
Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat (née Darwin), was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her memoir of her childhood Period Piece was published in 1952. She was born in Cambridge in 1885, the daughter of astronomer Sir George Howard Darwin and his wife. She was the granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin and a first cousin of poet Frances Cornford (née Darwin). She married the French painter Jacques Raverat in 1911. They were active in the Bloomsbury Group and Rupert Brooke's Neo-Pagan group until they moved to the south of France, where they lived in Vence, near Nice, until his death from multiple sclerosis in 1925.
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