Frances Cornford

Her mother Ellen Wordsworth Darwin, née Crofts, is buried in St. Andrews Church's churchyard in Girton, Cambridgeshire.

They had five children: Frances Cornford published several books of verse, including her debut (as "F.C.D"), The Holtbury Idyll (1908), Poems (1910), Spring Morning (1915), Autumn Midnight (1923), and Different Days (1928).

She wrote poems including "The Guitarist Tunes Up": With what attentive courtesy he bent Over his instrument; Not as a lordly conqueror who could Command both wire and wood, But as a man with a loved woman might Inquiring with delight What slight essential things she had to say Before they started, he and she, to play.

Maeve, many years after Larkin's death, would re-read the poem on All Souls:[7] My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim.

O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breast of doves And shivering-sweet to the touch?

My room's a square and candle-lighted boat, In the surrounding depths of night afloat; My windows are the portholes, and the seas The sound of rain on the dark apple-trees.