From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frances Bellerby
Frances Bellerby
Parker)
Mary Eirene Frances Bellerby (née Parker (August 29, Bristol. She was educated at Mortimer House School,
1899 – 1975) was an English poet. Clifton and in her twenties worked as a kennel-maid,
Born in Bristol, Frances Bellerby was a clergyman’s taught English, Latin and games, tutored, and had a staff
daughter, and lost her only brother in the First World job in the London office of the Bristol Times and Mirror.
War. Having worked as a teacher and journalist, she mar- In 1929 she married the economist John Rotherford
ried John Rotherford Bellerby, a Cambridge academic, in Bellerby; after an accident in 1930 and recurrent ill-
1929. Her 1932 novel, Shadowy Bricks, refers to the social health she remained a semi-invalid until her death in
and educational experiments carried out by the couple. 1975.
They separated permanently in 1942, and Frances Beller- Persondata
by became a serious poet. She settled in Cornwall and lat-
Name Bellerby
er in Devon, producing poetry, short stories, and anoth-
er novel. During the 1950s she learned she was suffer- Alternative names
ing from breast cancer, but she survived another twen- Short description
ty years, though in poor physical and mental health. Her Date of birth August 29, 1899
papers are now held by the library of the University of
Place of birth
Exeter.she has written many poems her one of the most
famous poems was Voices. Date of death 1975
Frances Bellerby, poet, novelist and short story Place of death
writer, was born in 1899, the daughter of an Anglo-
Catholic curate in a poor working-class parish of East
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