Gwen Raverat

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English wood engraver, who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers and author of "Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood" (1952), an autobiographical memoir. 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. Gwen Raverat died on 11 February 1957, aged 71, in Cambridge, England. Link to Wikipedia biography