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
.
Versions of VH
also emerge in the fictions of her lover, Ford Madox Ford
. Barbara Belford
suggests that she sparked elements of both Leonora Ashburnham and Florence Dowell in his The Good Soldier (1915)...
Textual Production
Violet Hunt
VH
and Ford Madox Ford
published their joint non-fiction, The Desirable Alien: at Home in Germany.
Rogers, John H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 162. Gale Research.
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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Among those who frequented VH
's house there were some to whom she became especially close. Her long friendship with Henry James
dated back to July 1882. Apart from an estrangement during the scandal over...
Residence
Violet Hunt
VH
lived at South Lodge until her death. The Greater London Council
placed a commemorative blue plaque there, but as of 2002, it acknowledged South Lodge only as one of the residences of VH
's...
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.
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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.
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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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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.
