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Gwen Mary Raverat (26 August 1885 –11 February 1957), née Darwin, was an English wood engraver, who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers.〔Joanna Selborne, ‘The Society of Wood Engravers: the early years’ in ''Craft History 1'' (1988), published by Combined Arts.〕 and author of Period Piece in 1952. == Biography == Gwen Mary Darwin was born in Cambridge in 1885, she was the daughter of Sir George Howard Darwin and his wife Lady Maud Darwin, née Maud du Puy. She was the granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin and first cousin of the 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. They had two daughters: Elisabeth (1916-2014), who married the Norwegian politician Edvard Hambro, and Sophie Jane (1919-2011), who married the Cambridge scholar M.G.M. Pryor and later Charles Gurney. She is buried in the Trumpington Extension Cemetery, Cambridge with her father Sir George Darwin; while her mother Lady Maud Darwin was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on 10 February 1947. Her uncles Sir Francis Darwin and Sir Horace Darwin are buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground; her first cousin Frances Cornford is buried with her father Sir Francis Darwin. Cambridge and the people associated with it remained very much the centre of her life. Darwin College, Cambridge, occupies both her childhood home, Newnham Grange, and the neighbouring Old Granary where she lived for the last years of her life. The college has named one of its student accommodation houses after her. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gwen Raverat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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