Jill Banford is a character of the short story “The Fox” by D.H. Lawrence. The name Banford derive from the verb to band that mean “legare, avvolgere”. She is a woman nearly 30 years old. She was thin and delicate, she had got a little money and his father bought Bailey Farm (in Berkshire, in west of London). She lived in the farm with March that is the protagonist in the first part of the story. Banford is considered the more famale of the two girls because she did “woman works” in the farm, instaed March did “man works”. She had a fundamental role in the second part of the story. She conviced March to hosted Henry into the farm, and she prevented the marriage between Henry and March.

She died at the end of the story. She was killed by a tree that Henry had been cutting.