In this premier episode Kristin Bluemel tells the story of artist Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) and other women wood engravers whose work contributed to an engraving revival in 1930s England. Kristin Bluemel is Professor of English and the Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Monmouth University. She is the author of books on Dorothy Richardson and George Orwell, editor of Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), co-editor of Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention ((Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and editor of Blitz Writing (Handheld Press, 2019). From January to June 2022 she will be Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Newcastle University.