Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family, and Affections

BRO-DART COVER. 2001 Harvill Press hardcover, 2nd printing. BRITISH import. Frances Spalding (Vanessa Bell: Portrait of a Bloomsbury Artist). In this first full biography, Frances Spalding looks beyond the artist Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir; Period Piece, and creates a fascinating and moving portrait of Charles Darwin's granddaughter. She explores her Darwin inheritance; her conflicts when she moves beyond her home environment to enter the Slade School of Art; her encounter with post-Impressionism; and her friendships with Stanley Spencer, Rupert Brooke and members of the Bloomsbury set.