John Cornford

Frances Cornford gave birth to her second child, Rupert John Cornford , who grew up to become in his short lifetime a better-known poet than she was.

Frances Cornford 's son, the poet John Cornford , was killed at barely twenty-one while with the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

Frances Cornford 's grandson James , son of John Cornford (who was eight years dead), came to Cambridge to live with her as her adoptive son.

Rupert John Cornford was named after Rupert Brooke , who had died eight months earlier, and John Swan , a miner who met the Cornfords through the Workers' Educational Association .

CS enjoyed the company of men and needed to be admired. Blech tolerated her flirtations, and a probable affair with the roving journalist and political activist Ralph Fox . Fox died (with John Cornford ...

Her son John , a Modernist poet concerned with social issues, criticised Frances Cornford for her reluctance to deal with unpoetical subject matter: I wonder, how much of your poetry is shaped by tradition...

Cornford's papers are kept at the British Library . Some of her letters have been published in Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound, an edition of the works of her son John Cornford .

Since the early 1990s, MW has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford , John Milton , and Ariosto : Spain, first performed...