Gwen Raverat's House by the River

A sketch of 'Period Piece' in six chapters

The river side of Newnham Grange, by Gwen Raverat (Period Piece, 2002, p. 33)

‘This is a circular book,’ the artist Gwen Raverat, aged 62, explains at the start of her memoir Period Piece. It was her first book and she had wondered how to structure it, until she decided on the idea of thinking of it as like the wheel of a bicycle. ‘It does not begin at t…