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
.
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.
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In 1909, Hunt and her close friend Agnes Farley
took dictation from Hunt's...
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...
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.
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.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
171-5
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
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...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates
H. D.
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
,...
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...
Literary responses
E. M. Forster
Ford Madox Ford
reviewed Forster's book, with little enthusiasm.
Kermode, Frank. “Fiction and E. M. Forster”. London Review of Books, pp. 15-24.
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Reception
Ella D'Arcy
EDA
's slim output has made it easier for posterity to ignore her. But both Arnold Bennett
and Ford Madox Ford
thought highly of her.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. “Ella D’Arcy: A Commentary with a Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
35
, No. 2, pp. 179-11.
204
Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">The Yellow Book</span> and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press.
JC
published a novel, The Inheritors, in collaboration with Ford Madox Heuffer (later Ford Madox Ford)
.
Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press.
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Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production
Joseph Conrad
JC
and Ford Madox Ford
published a second collaborative novel, Romance.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press.
