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Gwen Raverat Biography

Gwen Mary Raverat (26 August 1885 – 11 February 1957), née Darwin, was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her memoir Period Piece was published in 1952.

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You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.

Difficult, Encyclopedia, Ideas, Knowledge, Tried, Unless

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

Chief, Education, Learnt, Lying, School, Tell

The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.

Class, Dance, Mistress, Religious, Under

you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.

Growing Up, Mind, Parent, Take, Way

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.

Defined, Definitions, Ladies, People, Things

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