A Biography.
A fascinating portrait of Darwin's granddaughter, a key figure in the artistic and intellectual worlds of Cambridge and Bloomsbury.
Born into a proud family with a scientific independence of mind, Gwen Raverat, an extremely talented wood-engraver and illustrator, swiftly forged connections with some of the most interesting intellectual movements in England and France. She studied at the Slade School of Art where she befriended Stanley Spencer, marrying his friend Jacques Raverat, who died tragically from multiple sclerosis. She was a close friend of Rupert Brooke, Andre Gide, and the Bloomsbury set. Her much-loved book 'Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood' has remained in print since its first publication in 1952.
Frances Spalding has drawn a mass of unpublished family papers to recreate the complex network of relationships that made up the various generations of the Darwin clan.
