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 .

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Friends, Associates Natalie Clifford Barney
By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry , Colette , Jean Cocteau , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Rabindranath Tagore , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott
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.
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, pp. 279-95.
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Pound was discouraging, telling her that he...
Friends, Associates Sylvia Beach
Among the first subscribers were Thérèse Bertrand (later Fontaine) , André Gide , Dorothy and Ezra Pound , and Gertrude Stein .
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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With the loyal support of French literary figures such as Valery Larbaud
Friends, Associates Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy
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.
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“Mary Butts Papers”. Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Friends, Associates Mary Butts
In Paris in the 1920s MB engaged with other modernist writers and literary people, including James Joyce , Djuna Barnes , Robert McAlmon , Ford Madox Ford , Bryher , Peggy Guggenheim , Ethel Colburn Mayne
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
Textual Production Joseph Conrad
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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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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.
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Textual Production Joseph Conrad
The Nature of a Crime, another novel by JC and Ford Madox Ford , was published.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press.
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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.
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, 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.
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Katherine Mix discussed her work in A Study...
Textual Features E. M. Forster
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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Friends, Associates Julia Frankau
Literary figures regularly seen at JF 's afternoon salons included George Moore , Max Beerbohm , Arnold Bennett , Somerset Maugham , Sir William Nicholson , and Sir Henry Irving . It was at one...

Timeline

3 May 1869: Catherine Madox Brown made her exhibition...

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3 May 1869

Catherine Madox Brown made her exhibition debut with At the Opera at the Royal Academy .

2 July 1914: The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited...

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2 July 1914

The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis , formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.

2 September 1914: The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly...

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2 September 1914

The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly formed along the lines of a similar body in Germany) summoned twenty-five writers to discuss the production of texts that would boost national feeling and the war effort.

January 1924: The transatlantic review, edited by Ford...

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January 1924

The transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford , began monthly publication in Paris.

Texts

Ford, Ford Madox. A Man Could Stand Up. Duckworth, 1926.
Ford, Ford Madox. Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work. Longmans, Green, 1896.
Ford, Ford Madox. Last Post. Duckworth, 1928.
Ford, Ford Madox. No More Parades. Duckworth, 1925.
Ford, Ford Madox. Return to Yesterday. V. Gollancz, 1931.
Conrad, Joseph, and Ford Madox Ford. Romance. Smith Elder, 1903.
Ford, Ford Madox. Some Do Not—. Duckworth, 1924.
Ford, Ford Madox. The Brown Owl. T. Fisher Unwin, 1891.
Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. The Desirable Alien. Chatto and Windus, 1913.
Ford, Ford Madox, and Graham Greene. The Ford Madox Ford Reader. Editor Stang, Sondra J., Carcanet, 1986.
Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier. John Lane, 1915.
Hunt, Margaret et al. The Governess. Chatto and Windus, 1912.
Conrad, Joseph, and Ford Madox Ford. The Inheritors. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901.
Rhys, Jean, and Ford Madox Ford. The Left Bank, and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape.
Ford, Ford Madox. The March of Literature: from Confucius to Modern Times. George Allen and Unwin, 1939.
Ford, Ford Madox. The Marsden Case. Duckworth and Co. , 1923.
Conrad, Joseph, and Ford Madox Ford. The Nature of a Crime. Duckworth and Co., 1924.
Ford, Ford Madox. The Shifting of the Fire. T. F. Unwin, 1892.
Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Their Lives. Stanley Paul and Company Limited, 1916.
Ford, Ford Madox. This Monstrous Regiment of Women. Women’s Freedom League, 1913.
Rhys, Jean, and Ford Madox Ford. Tigers Are Better-Looking. Deutsch.
Rhys, Jean. “Vienne”. transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford and Ford Madox Ford, Vol.
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Ford, Ford Madox. Women and Men. Three Mountains, 1923.
Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Zeppelin Nights. John Lane, 1916.