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
.
These exercise books, along with some subsequent writing, were shown to Ford Madox Ford
by Parisian journalist H. Pearl Adam
ten years later when JR
went to her for help in publishing articles by her...
Textual Features
Jean Rhys
The book is a testament of death and loss. Rhys wrote of her abandonment by her lover (Ford Madox Ford
), her mother's death, and difficult relationships with former lovers (Lancelot Smith and Leslie...
Textual Production
Jean Rhys
This novel is the final form of the material she wrote twenty years earlier and gave to H. Pearl Adam
, who sent it on to Ford Madox Ford
. It was her first attempt...
Textual Production
Jean Rhys
It included (abridged) Ford Madox Ford
's introduction to The Left Bank. Many of these eight stories were written or begun in the 1930s. The original title for the collection, which had been rejected...
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
Literary responses
Hilary Mantel
Colin Burrow
found this novel brilliant, perhaps perverse, offering substantial and deep pleasure to the reader, excelling particularly when the historical record is uncertain or contradictory, well able to stand comparison with the portrait of...
Publishing
D. H. Lawrence
Jessie Chambers
, DHL
's friend from youth, submitted a number of Lawrence's poems to Ford Madox Hueffer
(later Ford), who published them in the English Review.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Ford
had not become a naturalized German citizen by September 1911, but he reaffirmed to Hunt that they would soon marry. She then met him for a holiday in Germany and France. During this...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
A number of Hunt's and Ford's associates testified that the couple appeared frequently in public as man and wife, and that others believed them to be married. No documentation was produced, however, of Ford
's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
VH
marked several points of decline in her relationship with Ford
. She told Rebecca West
that Ford was somewhat repelled
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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by her after he learned in 1914 that she had syphilis. She also...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
VH
met Ford Madox Hueffer
, later Ford Madox Ford, at a London dinner party held by John Galsworthy
.
