Kermode, Frank. “Fiction and E. M. Forster”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 15-24.
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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Leisure and Society | Amber Reeves | Soon after she came down from Cambridge the novelist Walter Lionel George
met AR
at a London party also attended by Ford Madox Hueffer
, Wyndham Lewis
, May Sinclair
, and Violet Hunt
... |
| Literary responses | E. M. Forster | Ford Madox Ford
reviewed Forster's book, with little enthusiasm. |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Ezra Pound | 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, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xix |
| 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 |
| 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, 1976. 166, 178 |
| 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. 5 , 1976, pp. 279-95. 287-8 |
| 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. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990. 175-6 |
| Publishing | 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, 1984. 135 Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990. 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, 1990. 164 Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland, 1984. 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, 1990. 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, 1990. 221 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 723 (25 November 1915): 425 |
| 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. 19 |
| 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... |
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