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
Friends, Associates Rebecca West
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
Family and Intimate relationships Fay Weldon
During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad , Jean Rhys (Such a louche young woman),
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo.
102
Ford Madox Ford
Friends, Associates May Sinclair
On her visit to the USA, MS became a warm friend of Annie Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett .
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
97
She was delighted with Thomas Hardy , with whom she went cycling in Dorset in...
Friends, Associates Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
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 ,...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Richardson
The Montparnasse group with whom they visited included Ernest and Hadley Hemingway , Sylvia Beach , Mary Butts , Nancy Cunard , Cecil Maitland , Mina Loy , and Nina Hamnett . Richardson was disappointed...
Publishing Dorothy Richardson
Margaret Anderson , co-publisher with Jane Heap of the Little Review, asked to serialise DR 's forthcoming novel (Interim) because she saw Richardson as an experimental writer worthy of publication. Richardson was...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Jean Rhys
JR published Barred, her translation of a novel by her first husband, Jean Lenglet , describing his view of her affair with Ford Madox Ford .
Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland.
145-6
Family and Intimate relationships Jean Rhys
While Lenglet was away in Holland, JR had to subsist with very little money. She stayed with a friend, the prominent Paris journalist and writer H. Pearl Adam (daughter of Mrs C. E. Humphry ...
Textual Production Jean Rhys
These exercise books, along with some subsequent writing, were shown to Ford Madox Ford by Parisian journalist H. Pearl Adam ten years later when JR went to her for help in publishing articles by her...
Textual Features Jean Rhys
The book is a testament of death and loss. Rhys wrote of her abandonment by her lover (Ford Madox Ford ), her mother's death, and difficult relationships with former lovers (Lancelot Smith and Leslie...
Textual Production Jean Rhys
This novel is the final form of the material she wrote twenty years earlier and gave to H. Pearl Adam , who sent it on to Ford Madox Ford . It was her first attempt...
Textual Production Jean Rhys
It included (abridged) Ford Madox Ford 's introduction to The Left Bank. Many of these eight stories were written or begun in the 1930s. The original title for the collection, which had been rejected...
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 Jean Rhys
Shortly after JR met Ford Madox Ford , her husband, Jean Lenglet , was arrested for stealing money.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
138, 140

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.
12
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Ford, Ford Madox. Women and Men. Three Mountains, 1923.
Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Zeppelin Nights. John Lane, 1916.