Frances Cornford was born on 30 March 1886 in  Cambridge, United Kingdom. Darwin was an English poet. She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Ellen Crofts, born into the Darwin,Wedgwood family. She was a granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin. Her elder half-brother was the golf writer Bernard Darwin. 

she was educated at home. Her first book of poems, which contained the “Fat Lady” verse, was published in 1910. Later volumes include Spring Morning (1915), Autumn Midnight (1923), Different Days(1928), Mountains and Molehills (1934), and Travelling Home (1948). Cornford’s Collected Poems appeared in 1954, and she was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 1959. Many of her poems, often very short, express her deep love for Cambridge and its traditions. she died on August 19, 1960, Cambridge, United Kingdom.