Period Piece - Hardcover
The granddaughter of Charles Darwin, Gwen Raverat was famed for her wood-engravings. This masterpiece of comic writing brings to life her eccentric aunts and uncles with snapshots of an extremely individual family. Also a great social memoir, it describes life in the late 19th century, growing up amid the fads and fetishes of academic and Victorian England.
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Gwen Raverat, nee Darwin, was the leading wood-engraving artist of the 20th Century. She illustrated a number of books both with her distinctive line drawings and characteristic wood-engravings, and prints from her original blocks are much sought after today. She married the French painter Jacques Raverat who died aged just 40 from MS. They were both part of the Bloomsbury Group and of Rupert Brooke's Neo-Pagans. Their correspondence with Virginia Woolf is the subject of Clear Press's Virginia Woolf and the Raverats. Gwen Raverat did not start writing Period Piece until she was 63.
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- PublisherIsis Large Print Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0753197448
- ISBN 13 9780753197448
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages328
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