Ellen Wordsworth Darwin

Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin , a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth , was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College . According to Frances's cousin Gwen Darwin , a later...

Others among her friends were Ellen Wordsworth Crofts , who later became the mother of the poet Frances Cornford , and Karl Pearson , mathematician, eugenicist, and founder of the Men and Women's Club .

Frances Cornford 's mother died, triggering the first of Frances's serious depressions.