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
.
RW
met Violet Hunt
and Ford Madox Hueffer
(later Ford Madox Ford
), who wished to make her their protegée.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
33
Friends, Associates
Mary Butts
During this time MB
became acquainted with Wyndham Lewis
and Ford Madox Ford
as well as Hamnett
and Fry
. She was a good friend of the strong feminist Wilma Meikle
.
Blondel, Nathalie, and Nathalie Blondel. “Foreword”. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life: A Biography, McPherson, p. xv - xix.
xvi
“Mary Butts Papers”. Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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...
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...
Fictionalization
Violet Hunt
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)...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
Ford
had not become a naturalized German citizen by September 1911, but he reaffirmed to Hunt that they would soon marry. She then met him for a holiday in Germany and France. During this...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
A number of Hunt's and Ford's associates testified that the couple appeared frequently in public as man and wife, and that others believed them to be married. No documentation was produced, however, of Ford
's...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
VH
marked several points of decline in her relationship with Ford
. She told Rebecca West
that Ford was somewhat repelled
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
220
by her after he learned in 1914 that she had syphilis. She also...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jean Rhys
JR
(still married to her first, bigamous husband
) had an affair with writer Ford Madox Ford
that lasted nearly two years.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
131, 133, 156-7
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
VH
met Ford Madox Hueffer
, later Ford Madox Ford, at a London dinner party held by John Galsworthy
.
