Period Piece - Softcover

Raverat, Gwen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753197456 ISBN 13: 9780753197455

Publisher: Isis Large Print, 2003

Synopsis

PERIOD PIECE is Gwen Raverat's account of her Victorian childhood in Cambridge. The granddaughter of Charles Darwin, she was later famed for her wood-engravings, many of which illustrate these stories, and her associations with the Bloomsbury Group. In this masterpiece of comic writing, Raverat brings to life her eccentric aunts and uncles with snapshots of an extremely individual family. There was Aunt Etty, fussy and "far from calm" and Uncle Richard with his egg-shaped waistcoat and fuzzy, waggly beard, whose socks always fell down. It is also a great social memoir, describing life in the late 19th century, growing up amid the fads and fetishes of academic and Victorian England. It is clear why this witty and irreverent book became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic when it was published in 1952.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Isis Large Print
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0753197456
• ISBN 13: 9780753197455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328