The Raverat Archive

Gwen Raverat: An exhibition of work

Sat 6 June 2015 - Sun 5 July 2015

Murray Edwards College

Gwen Mary Darwin was born in Cambridge in 1885. She was the daughter of Sir George Howard Darwin and his wife Lady Maud Darwin, and the granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin and first cousin of the poet Frances Cornford. 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.

Cost: Free Admission