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Frances Cornford (1886–1960)

Author of Collected Poems

11+ Works 41 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the name: Frances Darwin Cornford

Works by Frances Cornford

Collected Poems (1954) 12 copies, 1 review

Poems from the Russian (1943) 10 copies, 1 review

On a calm shore (1960) 4 copies

Mountains and molehills 3 copies

Selected poems (1996) 3 copies

Different Days 3 copies

Autumn midnight 2 copies

Parting in Wartime (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copy

Frances Cornford Collected Poems (second impression) (1955) 1 copy

Spring Morning (Raverat) • FREE E-BOOK • 1 copy

Poems from the Russian 1 copy

Associated Works

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Translator — 75 copies

Women on Nature (2021) — Contributor — 26 copies

Modern Women Poets (2005) — Contributor — 13 copies

Apocalypse: An Anthology (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

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2019 (1) anthology (1) collection (1) epigram (1) fiction (1) Fine Press including early Private Press (1) first edition (1) H/b (1) paperback (1) Peter Levi (1) place: FR (1) poems (1) poetry (18) pre-WWII (1) Russian (1) Russian literature (3) S4a (1) The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition (1) Unshelved A (1)

Common Knowledge

Legal name: Darwin, Frances Crofts
Birthdate: 1886
Date of death: 1960
Burial location: Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, England, UK
Gender: female
Nationality: UK
Occupations: poet
Relationships: Darwin, Francis (father)
Cornford, Francis Macdonald (husband)
Cornford, John (son)
Cornford, Christopher (son)
Chapman, Matthew (grandson)
Darwin, Bernard (brother) (show all 8)
Darwin, Charles (grandfather)
Raverat, Gwen (cousin)

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Poems from the Russian by Frances Darwin Cornford

Has neat inscription 'Richard Newnham from Peter Levi, Heythrop, June 62 with gratitude & affection'

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jon1lambert | Apr 24, 2023 |

Collected Poems by Frances Cornford

I first heard of her years ago in a programme on the radio. Looking online, I’ve just discovered that she was Charles Darwin’s grand-daughter. Favourites: “A wasted day”; “Ode on the whole duty of parents” and “Tapestry Song”.

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PollyMoore3 | May 14, 2020 |

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Statistics

Works: 11
Also by: 4
Members: 41
Popularity: #363,652
Rating: ½ 3.5

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 3

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