[1] "Her poetry is imbued with a spiritual awareness encoded through the natural environment while her political socialism is more evident in her prose".
She was educated at Mortimer House School, Clifton and in her twenties worked as a kennel-maid, taught English, Latin and games, tutored, and had a staff job in the London office of the Bristol Times and Mirror.
Her 1931 pamphlet Neighbours and the 1932 novel Shadowy Bricks refer to the social and educational experiments carried out by the couple.
After a fall on Lulworth cliffs in 1930 and recurrent ill-health, Frances Bellerby remained a semi-invalid until her death in 1975.
During the 1950s she learned she was suffering from breast cancer, but she survived another twenty years, though in poor physical and mental health.