Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Ford Madox Ford
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Standard Name: Ford, Ford Madox
Indexed Name: Ford Maddox Ford
Used Form: Ford Madox Hueffer
Used Form: Ford Madox H. Hueffer
Used Form: Ford H. Madox Hueffer
FMF
(who began publishing as Ford Madox Hueffer) was a significant figure in British and international modernism, and a prolific writer during the 1890s and the earlier part of the twentieth century. He produced fiction, criticism (of art, literature, and culture), autobiography, and other genres, and edited both the transatlantic review, which began and ended in 1924, and the English Review. Best remembered for the experimental aspects of his early novel The Good Soldier and of his war tetralogy, Parade's End, he was also a factor in the personal and literary development of two women writers, Violet Hunt
and Jean Rhys
.
After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,...
Friends, Associates
Nina Hamnett
In Paris NH
quickly re-acquainted herself with old friends and met new ones, re-establishing her presence at the popular cafés. She re-connected with Marie Wassilieff
, Zadkine
, Brancusi
, Aleister Crowley
, and others...
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Eliza Humphry
Their daughter, Helen Pearl Humphry
(later known as H. Pearl Adam), was born in the same area of London in 1882 (her birth being registered in the second quarter), and, like her mother, she pursued...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
Though often temporarily separated from him by a range of commitments and conflicts, VH
lived with Ford Madox Hueffer
in London; she leased their primary residence, South Lodge.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
152
Wealth and Poverty
Violet Hunt
Her death prompted a legal battle over her estate. VH
's sisters, Venetia
and Silvia
, contested the will in an attempt to exclude her from her share of the £23,589 estate. They disapproved of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
Though she was not named in the suit, VH
was stunned and humiliated when she saw in a news headline that a court had ordered her lover, Ford Madox Ford
, to return to his...
Textual Production
Violet Hunt
During VH
's tenure at Black and White magazine, her mother, Margaret Hunt
, already a successful novelist, edited her reviews.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
92
In 1909, Hunt and her close friend Agnes Farley
took dictation from Hunt's...
Travel
Violet Hunt
VH
and Ford Madox Ford
began a tour of Germany, where he planned to obtain citizenship, in order to divorce his wife
and marry Hunt without the restrictions imposed by the English legal system.
Rogers, John H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 162. Gale Research.
162: 147
though she and her lover Ford Madox Ford
were never legally wed.
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
Relying on false information given by Ford
, the Daily Mirror published a piece on his marriage to VH
; similar statements in The Sphere and The Sketch prompted controversy. Ford's legal wife
planned to...
Publishing
Violet Hunt
Hunt used the £60 in royalties from this book to pay for the dental work of her lover, Ford Madox Ford
.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
178
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
The libel trial of The Throne magazine began; the ultimately successful suit had been brought by Elsie Ford
, who objected to a review which wrongly referred to VH
as the wife of Elsie's husband,...
Textual Production
Violet Hunt
Ford Madox Ford
corrected the proofs of Their Lives and wrote its preface, which he signed Miles Ignotus or Unknown Soldier (a concept not yet used in commemoration of First World War dead).
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
228, 282
Textual Production
Violet Hunt
VH
began her association (before the first number was out) with the English Review, for which she was later a contributor, sub-editor, and reader. It was edited by Ford Madox Hueffer
(later Ford
)...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Violet Hunt
Hunt's memoirs concentrate predominantly on her creative associations with writers and painters, and her love-affair with writer Ford Madox Ford
during the years between 1908 and 1915.
Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright.
