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
.
In the last year of the life of her mother, Margaret Hunt
, VH
completed Margaret's novel The Governess, and published it with a preface by Ford Madox Ford
.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Margaret Hunt
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.
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...
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 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...
Textual Features
Dora Marsden
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
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...
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.
Vienne, a group of three sketches, appeared in the twelfth and last number of Ford Madox Ford
's transatlantic review: it bore the pseudonym JR
, and was her first publication.
Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland.
135
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
137-8
Publishing
Jean Rhys
JR
's translation of Francis Carco
's novel Perversité, wrongly ascribed to Ford Madox Ford
, was published in the US as Perversity.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
164
Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland.
143
Publishing
Violet Hunt
Hunt used the £60 in royalties from this book to pay for the dental work of her lover, Ford Madox Ford
.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
178
Publishing
Violet Hunt
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.
221
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Jessie Chambers
, DHL
's friend from youth, submitted a number of Lawrence's poems to Ford Madox Hueffer
(later Ford), who published them in the English Review.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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...
