Fredegond Shove

Fredegond Cecily Shove (/ˈfrɛdɪɡɒnd ˈʃoʊvv/ FRED-igond-SHOHV) (née Maitland, 1889–1949) was an English minor poet. Only two collections of her poetry were published in her lifetime; a small selection also appeared after her death.

Fredegond was the daughter of the legal historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife Florence Henrietta Fisher. Through her mother she was a cousin of Virginia Woolf and niece to the wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Her mother’s second marriage to Francis Darwin in 1913 also brought her in contact with his extended family. She attended Newnham College between 1910–13 and during that period also spent time in London with the Vaughan Williams. In 1915 she married the economist Gerald Shove who, like her own family, had links with the Bloomsbury group. Since he was a conscientious objector, and had to do farming as his alternative service, he worked at Garsington Manor near Oxford for most of 1916-17. The future Juliette Huxley, who was working there as a French tutor, later reminisced that "In those days … I saw a good deal of Fredegond Shove, Gerald’s wife, who lived like a Spartan at the Bailiff’s Cottage”. Their employer, Lady Ottoline Morrell, also remembered Fredegond then as “an enchanting creature, very sensitive, delicate and highly strung, with a fantastic imagination”.

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