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
.
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
Literary responses
Ezra Pound
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
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...
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.
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
,...
Once settled in a larger house more suited to entertaining, CADS
renewed old friendships and made new ones with luminaries in London literary society, including Beatrice Harraden
, Arthur Waugh
, H. G. Wells
,...
