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Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet. Biography. She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Newnham College fellow Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856–1903), and born into the Darwin—Wedgwood family. She was a granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin.
A biography and poems by Frances Cornford, a British poet and granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Learn about her life, works, awards, and legacy in this online archive.
Frances Cornford was an English poet, perhaps known chiefly, and unfairly, for the sadly comic poem “To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train” (“O fat white woman whom nobody loves, / Why do you walk through the fields in gloves…”). A granddaughter of Charles Darwin, she was educated at home. Her first book.
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Frances Darwin Cornford, granddaughter of Charles Darwin, was a prominent figure in early 20th century British poetry. Her work continues to be studied and appreciated today for its directness of language and unflinching portrayal of everyday life.
Francis Macdonald Cornford FBA (27 February 1874 – 3 January 1943) was an English classical scholar and translator known for work on ancient philosophy, notably Plato, Parmenides, Thucydides, and ancient Greek religion. Frances Cornford, his wife, was a noted poet.
Frances Cornford’s ‘Childhood‘ presents the moment in which a child’s innocence is threatened by the realization that aging is both inevitable and present before their eyes. Cornford thereby uses the poem to explore ideas around innocence and its eventual decline.
poet, mother of John Cornford. She is best known for her triolet ‘To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train’, with its curiously memorable though undistinguished lines ‘O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, | Missing so much and so much? | O fat white woman whom nobody loves’.
