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
.
After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,...
Friends, Associates
Nina Hamnett
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
Occupation
Violet Hunt
They travelled together until Hunt returned to London to conduct research into German divorce methods, write creative pieces for Lady's World, and arrange and type Ford
's latest novel, Ladies Whose Bright Eyes.
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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
Violet Hunt
VH
marked several points of decline in her relationship with Ford
. She told Rebecca West
that Ford was somewhat repelled
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by her after he learned in 1914 that she had syphilis. She also...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
VH
met Ford Madox Hueffer
, later Ford Madox Ford, at a London dinner party held by John Galsworthy
.
VH
met with Ford Madox Ford
at his home for dinner, after leaving the office of the English Review, where they both worked; she prevented his suicide attempt and they became lovers the next evening.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Hunt
Though often temporarily separated from him by a range of commitments and conflicts, VH
lived with Ford Madox Hueffer
in London; she leased their primary residence, South Lodge.
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Wealth and Poverty
Violet Hunt
Her death prompted a legal battle over her estate. VH
's sisters, Venetia
and Silvia
, contested the will in an attempt to exclude her from her share of the £23,589 estate. They disapproved of...
