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
.
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...
Ford Madox Ford
ridiculed the work when he met EP
in Germany later that year.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
xix
Literary responses
Mary Butts
Although her work received mixed reviews, MB
was generally recognized as an important if eccentric literary figure during her lifetime, and she was highly praised by other modernist writers, including Ezra Pound
, Marianne Moore
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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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...
Occupation
Natalie Clifford Barney
Rachilde
and Ford Madox Ford
discussed American women writers at a meeting of the Académie des Femmes
at NCB
's salon in Paris, giving special attention to Djuna Barnes
.
Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
166, 178
Occupation
Natalie Clifford Barney
A few years later, in 1925, Barney approached Pound
with her ideas for a new bilingual literary magazine, which she planned to edit with Sinclair Lewis
.
Sieburth, Richard. “Ezra Pound: Letters to Natalie Barney”. Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, Vol.
5
, pp. 279-95.
287-8
Pound was discouraging, telling her that he...
Occupation
Violet Hunt
They travelled together until Hunt returned to London to conduct research into German divorce methods, write creative pieces for Lady's World, and arrange and type Ford
's latest novel, Ladies Whose Bright Eyes.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
175-6
Publishing
Jean Rhys
Vienne, a group of three sketches, appeared in the twelfth and last number of Ford Madox Ford
's transatlantic review: it bore the pseudonym JR
, and was her first publication.
Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland.
135
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
137-8
Publishing
Jean Rhys
JR
's translation of Francis Carco
's novel Perversité, wrongly ascribed to Ford Madox Ford
, was published in the US as Perversity.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
164
Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland.
143
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
Publishing
Violet Hunt
Zeppelin Nights: A London Entertainment, a collection of linked non-fictional vignettes by VH
and Ford Madox Ford
, was advertised for sale, though it bore the date of 1916.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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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.
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Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
Margaret Anderson
, co-publisher with Jane Heap
of the Little Review, asked to serialise DR
's forthcoming novel (Interim) because she saw Richardson as an experimental writer worthy of publication. Richardson was...
