Eric Gill

Standard Name: Gill, Eric

Connections

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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Taylor
Through the Knox family the then Betty Coles met the sculptor Eric Gill , who also lived nearby. She helped in his workshop and became and remained his friend. She may perhaps have posed for...
Friends, Associates Valentine Ackland
After she left her husband, VA spent a good deal of time at Chaldon in Dorset. There, she was able to write and join a supportive community of artistic friends, including Theodore Powys and...
Friends, Associates Frances Cornford
Among friends entertained regularly or occasionally at Conduit Head were William Rothenstein , Eric Gill , Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson , Bertrand Russell , and Rabindranath Tagore .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Frances Cornford
FC also developed friendships, although not close ones, with Walter de la Mare , Eric Gill , Bertrand Russell , Siegfried Sassoon , Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams, and Virginia Woolf .
Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
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Publishing Frances Cornford
The Poetry Bookshop published Frances Cornford 's Autumn Midnight, a selection of previously printed poems with wood engravings by Eric Gill .
Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923.
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Textual Features Elizabeth Taylor
Brocard Sewell discerned in this novel an accurate sketch, under fictional names, of members of Eric Gill 's circle.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
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The protagonist, Cressy, grows up in the stifling and isolated environment of an arts-and-crafts Catholic...

Timeline

April 1893: The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the...

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April 1893

The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the Fine and Applied Arts was founded this month by Charles Holme and first edited by Cleeson White .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
318-19
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
North, John S., editor. The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals 1800-1900. North Waterloo Academic Press, 1997, 10 vols.
6

1903: The employment of an English sculptor, Eric...

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1903

The employment of an English sculptor, Eric Gill , by the German press Insel-Verlag represented the start of a vigorous, international influence in book design.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
125
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
125
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
169

1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...

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1907

Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson acquired the weekly review New Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 33-5.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1913: Cranach Presse was established in Weimar...

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1913

Cranach Presse was established in Weimar by Count Harry Kessler .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
172
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
169

1916: St Dominic's Press was founded at Ditchling,...

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1916

St Dominic's Press was founded at Ditchling, Sussex, by Hilary Pepler .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
173
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
280
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
324

1920: The Golden Cockerel Press was founded at...

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1920

The Golden Cockerel Press was founded at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, by Harold Midgely Taylor and Gay Taylor .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
133
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
191
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
174-5
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
124-5
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
321

1920: The Society of Wood Engravers was formed...

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1920

The Society of Wood Engravers was formed.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
174
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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1927: The Perpetua Type by Eric Gill was cut by...

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1927

The Perpetua Type by Eric Gill was cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
138

1931: Eric Gill and his son-in-law, René Hague,...

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1931

Eric Gill and his son-in-law, René Hague , founded a press at Pigotts, Buckinghamshire.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
180

Texts

Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923.