Two months after her mother's death, Bellerby's husband
gave up his academic post and retired to live in a village near Cambridge. He joined the Oxford Group
(later known as Moral Rearmament
), became a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Bellerby
Frances Parker
married John Rotherford Bellerby
, a contemporary of her brother, who had lost an arm in the war and received the Military Cross.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Bellerby
FB
told her husband, John Rotherford Bellerby
, that she thought they should separate, which for a trial period they did.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Bellerby
FB
and her husband, John Rotherford Bellerby
, separated permanently; she later felt it a mistake that they had lived together so long after their first separation.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Frances Bellerby
After many years FB
felt the power of poetry return to her while she was alone in a cottage in Cornwall: because, she said, her inner self was at last free of
qtd. in
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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her husband
.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Textual Production
Frances Bellerby
FB
described in a pamphlet the idealistic charity organisation, The Neighbours
, to which she and her husband
belonged.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.