Fredegond Shove

Fredegond Shove (née Maitland, 1889–1949) was an English poet.

Life
Fredegond was the daughter of the historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife Florence Henrietta Fisher. She married the economist Gerald Shove.

Her work was included in the 1918–19 Georgian poetry volume. Socially she was on the fringe of the Bloomsbury group, but mostly resident in Cambridge.

Her poems "Motion and Stillness", "Four Nights", "The New Ghost", and "The Water Mill" were set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in Four Poems by Fredegond Shove for baritone and piano (1922). Vaughan Williams' wife Adeline Fisher was Fredegond's aunt.

Publications

 * Dreams and Journeys (1918)
 * Daybreak (1922)
 * Christina Rossetti: A Study (1931), ISBN 0-8414-7536-9
 * Selected Poems (1956)