Fredegond Shove (1889-1949). Photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), circa 1925. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Fredegond Shove (1889–1949) was an English poet.
Life[]
Shove was born Fredegond Maitland, the daughter of historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife Florence Henrietta (Fisher).
She married economist Gerald Shove.
Socially she was on the fringe of the Bloomsbury group,[1] She mainly resided in Cambridge.
Ralph Vaughan Williams' wife Adeline Fisher was Shove's aunt.
Recognition[]
Shove's work was included in Georgian Poetry, 1918-1919.
In popular culture[]
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.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Dreams and Journeys. Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1918.
- Daybreak. London: Hogarth Press, 1922.
- Poems. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1956.
Songs[]
4 Poems by Fredegond Shove- Motion and Stillness
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: For voice and piano. London: Oxford University Press, 1925.
Non-fiction[]
- Christina Rossetti: A study. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1931.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Noel Annan. Leslie Stephen (1984), note p. 159.
- ↑ Search results = au:Fredegond Shove, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 15, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Audio / video
- Books
- Fredegond Shove at Amazon.com
- About
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