Ford Madox Ford

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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 .

Milestones

17 December 1873

Ford Hermann Hueffer (later FMF ), British novelist, critic, and literary editor, was born at Merton in Surrey, the eldest in a family of three children.
Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, p. various pages.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

October 1891

The teenage FMF , under the name Ford Madox H. Hueffer , published his first work: a fairy story for children entitled The Brown Owl, with 1892 on its title-page.
Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press.
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17 March 1915

FMF , still as H. Ford Hueffer , published his best-known novel, The Good Soldier, A Tale of Passion, about a tragic love affair.
Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press.
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By 8 October 1938

A year before his death, FMF published an ambitious work of literary criticism, The March of Literature from Confucius ' Day to Our Own, with Dial of New York; the London edition followed in 1939.
Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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26 June 1939

FMF died at Deauville in France, where also he was buried.
Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, p. various pages.
xxvii
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Background

17 December 1873

Ford Hermann Hueffer (later FMF ), British novelist, critic, and literary editor, was born at Merton in Surrey, the eldest in a family of three children.
Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, p. various pages.
xxvi
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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