Jill Banford is one of the main character of D.H. Lawrence short story.

Jill Banford is a woman about thirty. She is pale and physically weak (thin, frail) and compared with March, they are totally different. Her personality is tenacious and she has a warm generous soul.

Her surname refers to the verb “to band” that means legare and it explains her role in the short story.

She is the co-owner of a farm in Berkshire (U.K.) and she isn’t marry so she lives there with her friend March. Banford is the opposite of her house mate and while she does all the housekeeping work, March does “man work”.

At the end of the novel she died. Killed by Henry, who was cutting a pine while she was feeding the poultry.