From Darwin to Cornford: The Evolution of the Poet Frances Cornford
Jane Firman, Peter Maberen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 iul 2026
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004754683
ISBN-10: 9004754687
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
ISBN-10: 9004754687
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Notă biografică
Jane Firman is an independent research scholar, writer, mentor, and entrepreneur. She was made honorary niece to Frances Cornford’s son, Christopher Cornford, in 1992, and received two books of his mother’s poems (Travelling Home and Collected Poems) from him shortly afterwards, thus beginning Jane’s interest in Frances Cornford and her poetry. Jane holds two degrees from the University of Cambridge: an MA in English Literature and a Master’s in History.
Peter Maber is Associate Professor and Head of English, Creative and Academic Writing at Northeastern University London. He writes on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and drama and has published articles in the journals Word & Image, Arizona Quarterly, and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry; and in the books After Thirty Falls: New Essays on John Berryman (Rodopi, 2007), Spaces of the Book (Peter Lang, 2015), and Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration (Bloomsbury, 2024). He also writes regularly on art for the Times Literary Supplement.
Peter Maber is Associate Professor and Head of English, Creative and Academic Writing at Northeastern University London. He writes on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and drama and has published articles in the journals Word & Image, Arizona Quarterly, and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry; and in the books After Thirty Falls: New Essays on John Berryman (Rodopi, 2007), Spaces of the Book (Peter Lang, 2015), and Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration (Bloomsbury, 2024). He also writes regularly on art for the Times Literary Supplement.
Recenzii
"A stellar group of highly accomplished authors has been assembled to write about Frances Cornford. I came to know Frances Cornford when I attended her small "at homes" when I was a student at Cambridge in the 1950s; I subsequently was the co-author of a biographical study of her son John. This book will make her deservedly more recognised, as a wonderful poet; but it also provides important insights into English intellectual and literary "aristocracy", through the study of her life as a Darwin, as a close friend of Rupert Brooke and the Neo-Pagan circle, and as Francis Cornford's wife. It is also an important personal story, sadly because of her periods of deep depression, more positively as she moves from atheism to deep religiosity."
-Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University
"A book that is dear to my heart."-Jonathan Galassi, Chairman and Executive Director, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and editor of Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound: Selected Writings of John Cornford.
“[…] What emerges is a picture of a poet with an abiding love of Cambridge, where she grew up, who turned her back on Victorian pieties, writing instead in closely-observed direct and simple diction about nature, motherhood and everyday domestic experiences that reflected the changing experiences of girls and women and the anxieties and tensions of her day.
[…] There is an impressively well-researched chapter on Frances Cornford’s religious life and her agnosticism and a wonderful discussion of the visual arts, copiously illustrated with Frances Cornford’s early watercolours. However, I expect that the highlight of this edited collection for many readers will be the extracts from Frances’s hitherto unpublished autobiographical fragment which makes it possible for us to hear the poet’s own voice anew and respond to her own words. […]
I warmly recommend From Darwin to Cornford as an excellent work of reference”
-Mary Joannou, Emerita Professor Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford
-Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University
"A book that is dear to my heart."-Jonathan Galassi, Chairman and Executive Director, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and editor of Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound: Selected Writings of John Cornford.
“[…] What emerges is a picture of a poet with an abiding love of Cambridge, where she grew up, who turned her back on Victorian pieties, writing instead in closely-observed direct and simple diction about nature, motherhood and everyday domestic experiences that reflected the changing experiences of girls and women and the anxieties and tensions of her day.
[…] There is an impressively well-researched chapter on Frances Cornford’s religious life and her agnosticism and a wonderful discussion of the visual arts, copiously illustrated with Frances Cornford’s early watercolours. However, I expect that the highlight of this edited collection for many readers will be the extracts from Frances’s hitherto unpublished autobiographical fragment which makes it possible for us to hear the poet’s own voice anew and respond to her own words. […]
I warmly recommend From Darwin to Cornford as an excellent work of reference”
-Mary Joannou, Emerita Professor Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford
Cuprins
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 (1856–1903)
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
10 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
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 (1856–1903)
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
10 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