Gwen Raverat

	Gwen Raverat as a child in 1897 (at that time called Gwendolen Mary Darwin)

GWEN RAVERAT (1885-1957), was a well known painter and illustrator. The Runaway was written in 1872; in 1936 it was reissued with especially commissioned woodcuts by her. She was a granddaughter of Charles Darwin and was brought up in Cambridge; when she was only sixteen she wrote a play based on The Runaway. At the Slade (where she taught herself wood-engraving) she met the painter Jacques Raverat; they married in 1911 and lived in France.  After her husband's death in 1925 Gwen Raverat  returned to England. She lived with her two daughters near Cambridge; here she wrote her classic childhood memoir Period Piece (1952).