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
.
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.
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Textual Production
Jean Rhys
JR
published her first book, The Left Bank, and Other Stories, with an introduction by Ford Madox Ford
.
Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland.
3-4
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
Textual Production
Jean Rhys
JR
published her first novel, Postures; better known by its title in later editions, Quartet, it fictionalises the details of her affair with Ford Madox Ford
.
Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland.
Ford Madox Ford
ridiculed the work when he met EP
in Germany later that year.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
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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...
Literary responses
Hilary Mantel
Colin Burrow
found this novel brilliant, perhaps perverse, offering substantial and deep pleasure to the reader, excelling particularly when the historical record is uncertain or contradictory, well able to stand comparison with the portrait of...
Publishing
D. H. Lawrence
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.
The libel trial of The Throne magazine began; the ultimately successful suit had been brought by Elsie Ford
, who objected to a review which wrongly referred to VH
as the wife of Elsie's husband,...
Textual Production
Violet Hunt
Ford Madox Ford
corrected the proofs of Their Lives and wrote its preface, which he signed Miles Ignotus or Unknown Soldier (a concept not yet used in commemoration of First World War dead).
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
228, 282
Textual Production
Violet Hunt
VH
began her association (before the first number was out) with the English Review, for which she was later a contributor, sub-editor, and reader. It was edited by Ford Madox Hueffer
(later Ford
)...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Violet Hunt
Hunt's memoirs concentrate predominantly on her creative associations with writers and painters, and her love-affair with writer Ford Madox Ford
during the years between 1908 and 1915.
Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright.
