She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge
's The Daisy Chain, she had...
Education
Frances Cornford
Although her step-brother Bernard went to Eton
, Frances Cornford received her education at home, and sometimes shared classes with her nearby cousins, one of whom was Gwen Darwin
, later Raverat.
Cornford, Hugh, Gwen Raverat, Christopher Cornford, Frances Cornford, Gwen Raverat, and Christopher Cornford. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
xxviii
Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1977.
63-4
Frances's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Bussy
DB
's youngest sister, Marjorie Colville (Gumbo) Strachey
(1882-1964), was a teacher, suffragist, writer, and member of the group Woolf called the Neo-Pagans group (which included Rupert Brooke
, Gwen Raverat
, Ka Cox
...
Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1977.
192
Cornford, Hugh, Gwen Raverat, Christopher Cornford, Frances Cornford, Gwen Raverat, and Christopher Cornford. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
xxvii
According to Frances's cousin Gwen Darwin
, a later...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Cornford
For Christmas 1908, following Frances's engagement, Gwen Darwin
wrote a skit called The Importance of Being Frank. All the characters in this piece were called either Francis or Frances, a circumstance leading to endless...
Family and Intimate relationships
Charles Darwin
This remarkable family produced several women writers. Julia Wedgwood
was CD
's niece by marriage; his grand-daughters included the poet Frances Cornford
and the artist and memoirist Gwen Raverat
.
The piece was published the same year. ES
used stories by Richard Garnett
and Nathaniel Hawthorne
as sources. She had been working on her lyrics since June 1927, when she sent Vaughan Williams the fruits...
Occupation
Frances Cornford
Because the play was staged out of term, women were able to participate. Jane Harrison
(who knew Frances well, and had been an intimate friend of her mother) recruited several women from Newnham College
as...
Publishing
Eleanor Farjeon
EF
contributed a piece of light verse each day to the Daily Herald, which appeared under the name of Tomfool. These were collected in 1920 in a volume entitled Tomfooleries. If she...
Publishing
Vita Sackville-West
The publisher of this and later editions was Heinemann
. It was reprinted in fourteen impressions that year, and by 1971, 100,000 copies had been sold in Britain alone, as well as appearing in VSW
Publishing
Charlotte Yonge
An edition of 1948 was illustrated by Gwen Raverat
.
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, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
“Notice: Spring Morning”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 696, p. 172.
172
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, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Mountains and Molehills. Cambridge University Press, 1934.
vi
Reception
Frances Cornford
The Times reviewer wrote that the poems had the rare gift . . . of simple, naive utterance, successful only, as here, when there is something worth uttering.
“Notice: Spring Morning”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 696, p. 172.
172
Some of Raverat
's woodcuts were...
Timeline
By December 1952
Woodcut-engraver Gwen Raverat, née Darwin
, published Period Piece, her extremely popular memoir of her Victorian childhood in Cambridge; by 1975 it had sold 120,000 copies in Britain alone.
Texts
Cornford, Hugh, Gwen Raverat, Christopher Cornford, Frances Cornford, Gwen Raverat, and Christopher Cornford. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
Dowson, Jane, Gwen Raverat, Christopher Cornford, Frances Cornford, Gwen Raverat, and Christopher Cornford. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xiii - xxv.
Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Mountains and Molehills. Cambridge University Press, 1934.
Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1977.
Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Spring Morning. Poetry Bookshop, 1915.