Cette auteure explore les liens complexes entre l'humanité et le monde naturel, se plongeant souvent dans la vie intérieure de ses personnages. Son style est lyrique et introspectif, avec un œil attentif à l'observation détaillée et aux nuances émotionnelles subtiles. À travers son écriture, elle cherche à capturer la nature éphémère des moments et la beauté trouvée dans l'existence quotidienne. Ses œuvres résonnent auprès des lecteurs qui apprécient la profondeur et le langage poétique.
As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small incidents of life, recorded here in delightful prose and beautiful illustrations, reveal an artist's careful eye.
'A drawing of the world when I was young.' So Gwen Raverat, the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, which since its initial publication in 1952 has never been out of print. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of her eccentric relations, and of Cambridge society in a time when it was restricted enough to be treated as an extension of the family. As a child she thought it impossible that she would ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small incidents in her life, recorded here both in word and drawing, reveal an artist's careful eye.