From Darwin to Cornford : The Evolution of the Poet Frances Cornford /
This study presents the first sustained account of the life and work of the poet Frances Cornford (1886-196). Scholars from across disciplines reveal her journey, as she navigated the scientific inheritance of her grandfather Charles Darwin, the patriarchal world of the University of Cambridge, and...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL,
2026.
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Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Call Number: PK6530
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Jane Firman
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Prologue
- Emma Darwin
- Introduction
- Jane Firman and Peter Maber
- 1 From Darwin to Cornford
- Jane Firman
- 2 Francis (Frank) Darwin
- Janet Browne
- 3 'No Omnibus Heart': Ellen Wordsworth Darwin (1856-193)
- Ann Kennedy Smith
- 4 Frances Cornford's Memoir
- Introduction by Jane Firman
- Jane Firman
- Frances
- Bhanu Kapil
- 5 Frances Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943)
- Christopher Stray
- 6 Conduit Head
- Sylvia Lachmann
- 7 Frances Cornford, Gwen Raverat and Visual Art
- 7.1 Between Cousins: Frances Cornford and Gwen Raverat
- Frances Spalding
- 7.2 From Painter to Poet: Frances Cornford and Visual Art
- Peter Maber
- 8 Frances Cornford's Religious Life: the Fragmentation and Construction of the Self
- Jane Garnett
- 9 Frances Cornford's Depressions
- Eugene Paykel
- 1 Frances Cornford, Poet
- Peter Maber
- 11 'To the Fastness within': Reading Frances Cornford's Poems
- Ian Patterson
- 12 'How Many Things Have to Be Thought of at Once': Frances Cornford's Letters
- Samantha Evans
- The End: the Ascension Parish Burial Ground
- Eric Marland and Jane Firman
- Epilogue: from Darwin to Cornford-Finding Frances
- Jane Dowson
- Afterwords
- Andrew Cornford and John Wells
- Index.