The Literature Network - Portrait of the artist as a young girl Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir of Cambridge life, Period Piece, became a classic after its publication in 1952. Now the graphic artist, painter, writer and granddaughter of Charles Darwin is to be honoured by th

Portrait of the artist as a young girl Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir of Cambridge life, Period Piece, became a classic after its publication in 1952. Now the graphic artist, painter, writer and granddaughter of Charles Darwin is to be honoured by th

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20010712
Author:Frances Spalding

News leaked out last week that Gwen Raverat will be the first woman in Cambridge to be honoured with a blue plaque. It is to be placed on Newnham Grange, which is now part of Darwin College but was originally the home of Gwen's father and mother, Sir George and Lady Darwin. Here she grew up in the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Towards the end of her life she returned to live in the nearby Old Granary, once part of the Grange estate, and there, in a room overlooking the river, wrote her childhood memoir Period Piece which has never been out of print since it first appeared in 1952.

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Portrait of the artist as a young girl Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir of Cambridge life, Period Piece, became a classic after its publication in 1952. Now the graphic artist, painter, writer and granddaughter of Charles Darwin is to be honoured by th

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