Frances cornford biography

English poet (1886–1960)

Frances Cornford née Darwin should not be confused with her husband Francis Cornford.

Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet.

Biography

She was the daughter of the botanistFrancis Darwin and Newnham College fellow Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856–1903), and born into the Darwin—Wedgwood family.

Frances cornford childhood

Frances Crofts Cornford was an English poet.

Frances cornford poems

Biography.

Frances Darwin Cornford was an English poet who was a member of the famous Darwin-Wedgewood family.

She was a granddaughter of the BritishnaturalistCharles Darwin. Her older half-brother was the golf writer Bernard Darwin. She was brought up in Cambridge, among a dense social network of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and was educated privately.^[1][2] Because of the similarity of her first name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC".

Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as