Frances Cornford
Frances Cornford
Frances Crofts Cornfordwas an English poet; because of the similarity of her Christian name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC". Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank"...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 March 1886
fat fields missing nobody walk white whom woman
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, / Missing so much and so much? / O fat white woman whom nobody loves.
long planning unprepared
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.