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| pseudonym = Ford Hermann Hueffer, Ford Madox Hueffer | | pseudonym = Ford Hermann Hueffer, Ford Madox Hueffer | ||
− | | | + | | birthdate = {{birth date|1873|12|17|mf=y}} |
− | | | + | | birthplace = [[Merton (historic parish)|Merton]], [[Surrey]] |
− | | | + | | deathdate = {{death date and age|1939|6|26|1873|12|17|mf=y}} |
− | + | | deathplace = [[Deauville]], [[France]] | |
| occupation = [[novelist]], [[publisher]] | | occupation = [[novelist]], [[publisher]] | ||
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− | | period = | + | | period = 1892 - 1971 |
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+ | '''Ford Madox Ford''' ([[December 17]], [[1873]] – [[June 26]], [[1939]]) was an [[English people|English]] [[novelist]], [[poet]], [[critic]] and [[Literary editor|editor]] whose [[journal]]s, ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review'', were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature.{{Fact|date=June 2008}} He is now best remembered for ''[[The Good Soldier]]'' (1915) and the ''[[Parade's End]]'' [[tetralogy]]. | ||
− | '''Ford | + | Born '''Ford Hermann Hueffer''', the son of [[Francis Hueffer]], he was '''Ford Madox Hueffer''' before he finally settled on the name '''Ford Madox Ford''' in honor <!-- honor v honour decision dependent on author, not subject's nationality> <!—Not honor, as he was British.—> of his grandfather, the [[Pre-Raphaelite]] painter [[Ford Madox Brown]], whose [[biography]] he had written. |
− | + | ==Ford's literary life== | |
+ | One of his most famous works is ''[[The Good Soldier]]'' (1915), a short novel set just before [[World War I]] which chronicles the [[tragedy|tragic]] lives of two "perfect couples" using intricate [[flashback (literary technique)|flashback]]s. In a "Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford” that prefaces the novel, Ford reports that a friend pronounced ''The Good Soldier'' “the finest [[French literature|French novel]] in the [[English language]]!” | ||
− | + | Ford was involved in the British war [[propaganda]] after the outbreak of World War I. He worked for the War Propaganda Bureau managed by [[C. F. G. Masterman]] with other writers and scholars who were popular in those years, such as [[Arnold Bennett]], [[G. K. Chesterton]], [[John Galsworthy]], [[Hilaire Belloc]] and [[Gilbert Murray]]. Ford wrote two propaganda books for Masterman, namely ''When Blood is Their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture'' (1915), with the help of [[Richard Aldington]], and ''Between St. Dennis and St. George: A Sketch of Three Civilizations'' (1915). | |
− | + | After writing the two propaganda books, Ford enlisted in the Welsh Regiment on 30 July 1915, and was sent to France, thus ending his cooperation with the War Propaganda Bureau. His combat experiences and his previous propaganda activities inspired his [[tetralogy]] ''[[Parade's End]]'' (1924-1928), set in [[England]] and on the [[Western Front]] before, during and after World War I. | |
− | Ford also wrote | + | Ford also wrote dozens of novels as well as [[essay]]s, [[poetry]], [[memoir]] and [[literary criticism]], and collaborated with [[Joseph Conrad]] on two novels, ''[[The Inheritors]]'' (1901) and ''[[Romance (novel)|Romance]]'' (1903). |
− | + | His novel ''[[Ladies Whose Bright Eyes]]'' (1911, extensively revised in 1935)<ref>Richard A. Cassell, "The Two Sorrells of Ford Madox Ford", | |
+ | in ''[[Modern Philology]]'', Vol. 59, No. 2, November 1961, pp. 114-121 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-8232%28196111%2959%3A2%3C114%3ATTSOFM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7&size=LARGE] | ||
+ | </ref> is, in a sense, the reverse of ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]''. | ||
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+ | ==Ford's promotion of literature== | ||
+ | In 1908, he founded ''The English Review'', in which he published [[Thomas Hardy]], [[H. G. Wells]], [[Joseph Conrad]], [[Henry James]], [[John Galsworthy]] and [[William Butler Yeats]], and gave debuts to [[Wyndham Lewis]], [[D. H. Lawrence]] and [[Norman Douglas]]. In the 1920s, he founded ''The Transatlantic Review'', a journal with great influence on [[modern literature]]. Staying with the artistic community in the Latin Quarter of [[Paris, France]], he made friends with [[James Joyce]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Gertrude Stein]], [[Ezra Pound]] and [[Jean Rhys]], all of whom he would publish (Ford is the model for the character Braddocks in Hemingway's ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]).'' In a later sojourn in the United States, he was involved with [[Allen Tate]], [[Caroline Gordon]], [[Katherine Anne Porter]] and [[Robert Lowell]] (who was then a student). Despite his deep [[Victorian era|Victorian]] roots, Ford was always a champion of new literature and literary experimentation. He had an affair with [[Jean Rhys]], which ended bitterly.<ref>[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rhys.htm Jean Rhys<!-- Bot generated title —>]</ref> | ||
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+ | ==Later life== | ||
+ | Ford spent the last years of his life teaching at [[Olivet College]] in [[Michigan]], and died in [[Deauville]], [[France]], at the age of 65. | ||
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− | + | * Ford went through several name changes. He was [[baptism|baptized]] Ford Hermann Hueffer, but later adopted his mother's name of Madox. Later he claimed he was Baron Hueffer von Aschendorf, but, after World War I, wanting to disavow his [[German people|German]] background, he finally settled on Ford Madox Ford.<ref> ''Henry James: A Life'', Leon Edel, c. 1985, p. 523.</ref> | |
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== Selected works == | == Selected works == | ||
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* ''The Brown Owl'', as H Ford Hueffer, Unwin, 1892. | * ''The Brown Owl'', as H Ford Hueffer, Unwin, 1892. | ||
* ''The Cinque Ports'', Blackwood, 1900. | * ''The Cinque Ports'', Blackwood, 1900. | ||
− | * ''The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story'', [[Joseph Conrad]] and Ford M. Hueffer, Heinemann, 1901. | + | * ''[[The Inheritors]]: An Extravagant Story'', [[Joseph Conrad]] and Ford M. Hueffer, Heinemann, 1901. |
* ''Rossetti'', Duckworth, [1902]. | * ''Rossetti'', Duckworth, [1902]. | ||
− | * ''Romance | + | * ''[[Romance (novel)|Romance]]'', [[Joseph Conrad]] and Ford M. Hueffer, Smith Elder, 1903. |
* ''The Benefactor'', Langham, 1905. | * ''The Benefactor'', Langham, 1905. | ||
* ''The Soul of London'', Alston, 1905. | * ''The Soul of London'', Alston, 1905. | ||
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* ''A Call'', Chatto, 1910. | * ''A Call'', Chatto, 1910. | ||
* ''The Portrait'', Methuen, 1910. | * ''The Portrait'', Methuen, 1910. | ||
− | * ''The Critical Attitude'', as Ford Madox Hueffer, Duckworth 1911 (extensively revised in | + | * ''The Critical Attitude'', as Ford Madox Hueffer, Duckworth 1911 (extensively revised in 1935). |
* ''The Simple Life Limited'', as Daniel Chaucer, Lane, 1911. | * ''The Simple Life Limited'', as Daniel Chaucer, Lane, 1911. | ||
− | * ''[[Ladies Whose Bright Eyes]]'', Constable, | + | * ''[[Ladies Whose Bright Eyes]]'', Constable, 1911 (extensively revised in 1935). |
* ''The Panel'', Constable, 1912. | * ''The Panel'', Constable, 1912. | ||
* ''The New Humpty Dumpty'', as Daniel Chaucer, Lane, 1912. | * ''The New Humpty Dumpty'', as Daniel Chaucer, Lane, 1912. | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
− | *[http://www.rialto.com/fordmadoxford_society/ Ford Madox Ford Society] | + | {{wikiquote}} |
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+ | *[http://www.rialto.com/fordmadoxford_society/ Ford Madox Ford Society] Members of the Ford Madox Ford Society get a free copy of new books published in the International Ford Madox Ford Studies series; see the Society website for details. | ||
*[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fford.htm A biography of Ford] | *[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fford.htm A biography of Ford] | ||
*[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1584 Literary Encyclopedia entry on Ford] | *[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1584 Literary Encyclopedia entry on Ford] | ||
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*[http://www.eldritchpress.org/fmf/gs.htm The Good Soldier complete] | *[http://www.eldritchpress.org/fmf/gs.htm The Good Soldier complete] | ||
*[http://www.litweb.net/biography/76/Ford%20Madox_Ford.html LitWeb.net: Ford Madox Ford Biography] | *[http://www.litweb.net/biography/76/Ford%20Madox_Ford.html LitWeb.net: Ford Madox Ford Biography] | ||
+ | *[http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=IFMFS International Ford Madox Ford Studies] | ||
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+ | {{Persondata | ||
+ | |NAME= Ford, Ford Madox | ||
+ | |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Hueffer, Ford Madox; Hueffer, Ford Hermann | ||
+ | |SHORT DESCRIPTION= English [[novelist]], [[publisher]] | ||
+ | |DATE OF BIRTH= [[December 17]], [[1873]] | ||
+ | |PLACE OF BIRTH= [[Merton (historic parish)|Merton]], [[Surrey]] | ||
+ | |DATE OF DEATH= [[June 26]], [[1939]] | ||
+ | |PLACE OF DEATH= [[Deauville]], [[France]] | ||
+ | }} | ||
[[Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure]] | [[Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure]] | ||
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Revision as of 03:41, 6 October 2008
Ford Madox Ford | |
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Born | December 17 1873 Merton, Surrey |
Died | June 26 1939 (aged 65) Deauville, France |
Pen name | Ford Hermann Hueffer, Ford Madox Hueffer |
Occupation | novelist, publisher |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Writing period | 1892 - 1971 |
Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature.[citation needed] He is now best remembered for The Good Soldier (1915) and the Parade's End tetralogy.
Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford Madox Hueffer before he finally settled on the name Ford Madox Ford in honor of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, whose biography he had written.
Ford's literary life
One of his most famous works is The Good Soldier (1915), a short novel set just before World War I which chronicles the tragic lives of two "perfect couples" using intricate flashbacks. In a "Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford” that prefaces the novel, Ford reports that a friend pronounced The Good Soldier “the finest French novel in the English language!”
Ford was involved in the British war propaganda after the outbreak of World War I. He worked for the War Propaganda Bureau managed by C. F. G. Masterman with other writers and scholars who were popular in those years, such as Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, John Galsworthy, Hilaire Belloc and Gilbert Murray. Ford wrote two propaganda books for Masterman, namely When Blood is Their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture (1915), with the help of Richard Aldington, and Between St. Dennis and St. George: A Sketch of Three Civilizations (1915).
After writing the two propaganda books, Ford enlisted in the Welsh Regiment on 30 July 1915, and was sent to France, thus ending his cooperation with the War Propaganda Bureau. His combat experiences and his previous propaganda activities inspired his tetralogy Parade's End (1924-1928), set in England and on the Western Front before, during and after World War I.
Ford also wrote dozens of novels as well as essays, poetry, memoir and literary criticism, and collaborated with Joseph Conrad on two novels, The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903).
His novel Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911, extensively revised in 1935)[1] is, in a sense, the reverse of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Ford's promotion of literature
In 1908, he founded The English Review, in which he published Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and William Butler Yeats, and gave debuts to Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. In the 1920s, he founded The Transatlantic Review, a journal with great influence on modern literature. Staying with the artistic community in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France, he made friends with James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Jean Rhys, all of whom he would publish (Ford is the model for the character Braddocks in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises). In a later sojourn in the United States, he was involved with Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter and Robert Lowell (who was then a student). Despite his deep Victorian roots, Ford was always a champion of new literature and literary experimentation. He had an affair with Jean Rhys, which ended bitterly.[2]
Later life
Ford spent the last years of his life teaching at Olivet College in Michigan, and died in Deauville, France, at the age of 65.
Name
- Ford went through several name changes. He was baptized Ford Hermann Hueffer, but later adopted his mother's name of Madox. Later he claimed he was Baron Hueffer von Aschendorf, but, after World War I, wanting to disavow his German background, he finally settled on Ford Madox Ford.[3]
Selected works
- The Shifting of the Fire, as H Ford Hueffer, Unwin, 1892.
- The Brown Owl, as H Ford Hueffer, Unwin, 1892.
- The Cinque Ports, Blackwood, 1900.
- The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story, Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer, Heinemann, 1901.
- Rossetti, Duckworth, [1902].
- Romance, Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer, Smith Elder, 1903.
- The Benefactor, Langham, 1905.
- The Soul of London, Alston, 1905.
- The Heart of the Country, Duckworth, 1906.
- The Fifth Queen, Alston, 1906.
- Privy Seal, Alston, 1907.
- An English Girl, Methuen, 1907.
- The Fifth Queen Crowned, Nash, 1908.
- Mr Apollo, Methuen, 1908.
- The Half Moon, Nash, 1909.
- A Call, Chatto, 1910.
- The Portrait, Methuen, 1910.
- The Critical Attitude, as Ford Madox Hueffer, Duckworth 1911 (extensively revised in 1935).
- The Simple Life Limited, as Daniel Chaucer, Lane, 1911.
- Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, Constable, 1911 (extensively revised in 1935).
- The Panel, Constable, 1912.
- The New Humpty Dumpty, as Daniel Chaucer, Lane, 1912.
- Henry James, Secker, 1913.
- Mr Fleight, Latimer, 1913.
- The Young Lovell, Chatto, 1913.
- Between St Dennis and St George, Hodder, 1915.
- The Good Soldier, Lane, 1915.
- Zeppelin Nights, with Violet Hunt, Lane, 1915.
- The Marsden Case, Duckworth, 1923.
- Women and Men, Paris, 1923.
- Mr Bosphorous, Duckworth, 1923.
- The Nature of a Crime, with Joseph Conrad, Duckworth, 1924.
- Some Do Not..., Duckworth, 1924.
- No More Parades, Duckworth, 1925.
- A Man Could Stand Up, Duckworth, 1926.
- New York is Not America, Duckworth, 1927.
- New York Essays, Rudge, 1927.
- New Poems, Rudge, 1927.
- Last Post, Duckworth, 1928.
- A Little Less Than Gods, Duckworth, [1928].
- No Enemy, Macaulay, 1929.
- The English Novel, Constable, 1930.
- When the Wicked Man, Cape, 1932.
- The Rash Act, Cape, 1933.
- It Was the Nightingale, Lippincott, 1933.
- Henry for Hugh, Lippincott, 1934.
- Provence, Unwin, 1935.
- Ladies Whose Bright Eyes(revised version), 1935
- Great Trade Route, OUP, 1937.
- Vive Le Roy, Unwin, 1937.
- The March of Literature, Dial, 1938.
- Selected Poems, Randall, 1971.
- Your Mirror to My Times, Holt, 1971.
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
External links
- Ford Madox Ford Society Members of the Ford Madox Ford Society get a free copy of new books published in the International Ford Madox Ford Studies series; see the Society website for details.
- A biography of Ford
- Literary Encyclopedia entry on Ford
- Works by Ford Madox Ford. Project Gutenberg
- The Good Soldier complete
- LitWeb.net: Ford Madox Ford Biography
- International Ford Madox Ford Studies
Persondata | |
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NAME | Ford, Ford Madox |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hueffer, Ford Madox; Hueffer, Ford Hermann |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | English novelist, publisher |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1873 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Merton, Surrey |
DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1939 |
PLACE OF DEATH | Deauville, France |
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