Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals '' The English Review'' and '' The Transatlantic Review'' were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels ''

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'' (1915), the ''

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(1924–1928) and '' The Fifth Queen''

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(1906–1908). ''The Good Soldier'' is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the

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, ''

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''s "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", and ''

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''s "1,000 novels everyone must read".

Early life

Ford was born in Merton in Surrey to Catherine Madox Brown and Francis Hueffer, the eldest of three; his brother was Oliver Madox Hueffer and his sister was Juliet Hueffer, the wife of David Soskice and mother of Frank Soskice. Ford's father, who became a music critic for ''

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'', was German and his mother English. His paternal grandfather Johann Hermann Hüffer was the first to publish the

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n poet and author Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. He was named after his maternal grandfather, the

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painter

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, whose biography he would eventually write. His mother's older half-sister was Lucy Madox Brown, the wife of

William Michael Rossetti William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic. Early life Born in London, Rossetti was a son of exiled Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti and his wife Frances Polidori, Frances Rossetti '' ...

and mother of

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. In 1889, after the death of their father, Ford and Oliver went to live with their grandfather in London. Ford attended the

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in London, but never studied at university. In November 1892, at 18, he became a Catholic, "very much at the encouragement of some Hueffer relatives, but partly (he confessed) galled by the 'militant atheism and anarchism' of his English cousins."

Personal life

In 1894, Ford eloped with his school girlfriend Elsie Martindale. The couple were married in

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and moved to Bonnington in Kent. In 1901, they moved to

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. They had two daughters, Christina (born 1897) and Katharine (born 1900). Ford's neighbours in Winchelsea included the authors

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, W. H. Hudson,

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in nearby Rye, and

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. In 1904, Ford suffered an

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breakdown due to financial and marital problems. He went to Germany to spend time with family there and undergo treatments. In 1909, Ford left his wife and set up home with English writer Isobel Violet Hunt, with whom he published the literary magazine '' The English Review''. Ford's wife refused to divorce him and he attempted to become a German citizen to obtain a divorce in Germany. This was unsuccessful. A reference in an illustrated paper to Violet Hunt as "Mrs. Ford Madox Hueffer" gave rise to a successful libel action being brought by Mrs. Elsie Hueffer in 1913. Ford's relationship with Hunt did not survive the First World War. Ford used the name of Ford Madox Hueffer, but changed it to Ford Madox Ford after World War I in 1919, partly to fulfil the terms of a small legacy, partly "because a Teutonic name is in these days disagreeable", and possibly to avoid further lawsuits from Elsie in the event of his new companion being referred to as "Mrs. Hueffer". Between 1918 and 1927, he lived with

Stella Bowen Esther Gwendolyn "Stella" Bowen (16 May 1893 – 30 October 1947) was an Australian artist and writer. Early life and education Esther Gwendolyn Bowen, who was known as Stella, was born on 16 May 1893 in North Adelaide, an inner suburb of Adel ...

, an Australian artist 20 years his junior. In 1920, Ford and Bowen had a daughter, Julia Madox Ford. In the summer of 1927, ''The New York Times'' reported that Ford had converted a mill building in Avignon, France into a home and workshop that he called "Le Vieux Moulin". The article implied that Ford was reunited with his wife at this point. In the early 1930s, Ford established a relationship with Janice Biala, a Polish-born artist from New York, who illustrated several of Ford's later books. This relationship lasted until the late 1930s. Ford spent the last years of his life teaching at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan, US. Olivet president, Joseph Brewer, admired Ford’s literary stature and wanted him to contribute to the college’s cultural mission. Ford’s acceptance was driven by his need for financial stability and his desire to mentor young writers. Robie Macauley who wrote the 1950 introduction to Ford's ''Parade’s End'' includes his reflections on Ford at Olivet. He was taken ill in

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, France, in June 1939 and died shortly afterward in

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at the age of 65.

Literary life

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One of Ford's most famous works is the novel ''

'' (1915). Set just before World War I, ''The Good Soldier'' chronicles the tragic expatriate lives of two "perfect couples", one British and one American, using intricate flashbacks. In the "Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford" that prefaces the novel, Ford reports that a friend pronounced ''The Good Soldier'' "the finest

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in the English language!" Ford pronounced himself a "

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mad about historic continuity" and believed the novelist's function was to serve as the historian of his own time. However, he was dismissive of the Conservative Party, referring to it as "the Stupid Party." Ford was involved in British war propaganda after the beginning of

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. He worked for the War Propaganda Bureau, managed by C. F. G. Masterman, along with

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, G. K. Chesterton,

John Galsworthy John Galsworthy (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called '' The Forsyte Saga'', and two later trilogies, ''A Modern Comedy'' and ''End of th ...

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and

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. Ford wrote two propaganda books for Masterman; ''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 at 41 years of age into the Welsh Regiment of the British Army on 30 July 1915. He was sent to France. Ford's combat experiences and his previous propaganda activities inspired his

'' (1924–1928), set in England and on the Western Front before, during and after World War I. Ford wrote dozens of novels as well as essays, poetry, memoirs and literary criticism. He collaborated with

on three novels, '' The Inheritors'' (1901), '' Romance'' (1903) and '' The Nature of a Crime'' (1924, although written much earlier). During the three to five years after this direct collaboration, Ford's best known achievement was '' The Fifth Queen'' trilogy (1906–1908), historical novels based on the life of Katharine Howard, which Conrad termed, at the time, "the swan song of historical romance." Ford's poem "Antwerp" (1915) was praised by

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as "the only good poem I have met with on the subject of the war". Ford's novel '' Ladies Whose Bright Eyes'' (1911, extensively revised in 1935) is a

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novel, like Twain's classic '' A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', only dramatising the difficulties, not the rewards, of such idealised situations. When the

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broke out, Ford took the side of the left Republican faction, declaring: "I am unhesitatingly for the existing Spanish Government and against Franco's attempt—on every ground of feeling and reason ... Mr Franco wishes to establish a government resting on the arms of Moors, Germans, Italians. Its success must be contrary to world conscience." His opinion of Mussolini and Hitler was likewise negative, and he offered to sign a manifesto against Nazism.

Promotion of literature

In 1908, Ford founded '' The English Review''. Ford published works by

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, May Sinclair,

and

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; and debuted works of

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an List of poets from the United States, American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Ita ...

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, D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. Ezra Pound and other Modernist poets in London in the teens particularly valued Ford's poetry as exemplifying treatment of modern subjects in contemporary diction. In 1924, he founded ''The Transatlantic Review'', a journal with great influence on modern literature. Staying with the artistic community in the Latin Quarter of

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, Ford befriended

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Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...

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, Ezra Pound and

Jean Rhys Jean Rhys, ( ; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her educa ...

, all of whom he would publish (Ford was the model for the character Braddocks in Hemingway's ''

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'').

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worked as Ford's assistant on the magazine. As a critic, Ford is known for remarking "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." George Seldes, in his book '' Witness to a Century'', describes Ford ("probably in 1932") recalling his writing collaboration with Joseph Conrad, and the lack of acknowledgment by publishers of his status as co-author. Seldes recounts Ford's disappointment with Hemingway: "'and he disowns me now that he has become better known than I am.' Tears now came to Ford's eyes." Ford says, "I helped Joseph Conrad, I helped Hemingway. I helped a dozen, a score of writers, and many of them have beaten me. I'm now an old man and I'll die without making a name like Hemingway." Seldes observes, "At this climax Ford began to sob. Then he began to cry." Hemingway devoted a chapter of his Parisian memoir '' A Moveable Feast'' to an encounter with Ford at a café in Paris during the early 1920s. He describes Ford "as upright as an ambulatory, well clothed, up-ended hogshead." During a later sojourn in the United States, Ford was involved with

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, Caroline Gordon,

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and

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(who was then a student). Ford was always a champion of new literature and literary experimentation. In 1929, he published ''The English Novel: From the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad'', a brisk and accessible overview of the history of English novels. He had an affair with

, which ended acrimoniously, which Rhys fictionalised in her novel ''

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''.

Reception

Ford is best remembered for his novels ''

'' (1915), the ''

(1924–1928) and '' The Fifth Queen''

(1906–1908). ''The Good Soldier'' is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, ''The Observer''′s "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", and ''The Guardian''′s "1000 novels everyone must read". The ''Parade's End'' tetralogy was made into an acclaimed BBC/HBO 5 part

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in 2012, starring

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and scripted by

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described Ford as the "greatest British novelist" of the 20th century.

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was also a great admirer, and more recently

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who has written essays about Ford and his work. Professor Max Saunders is the author of an authoritative biography of Ford, published in two volumes by Oxford University Press in 1996, followed up by a single volume focusing on two of Ford's novels, ''

'' (1915), the ''

(1924–1928), in 2023. Saunders has also edited some of Ford's oeuvre reissued by the

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Selected works

* ''The Shifting of the Fire'', as H. Ford Hueffer, Unwin, 1892. * ''The Questions at the Well'' as Fenil Haig,1893 * ''The Brown Owl'', as H. Ford Hueffer, Unwin, 1892. * ''The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale'', Bliss Sands & Foster, 1894. * ''Ford Madox Brown : a record of his life and work'', as H. Ford Hueffer, Longmans, Green, 1896. * ''The Cinque Ports'', Blackwood, 1900. * '' The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story'',

and Ford M. Hueffer, Heinemann, 1901. * ''Rossetti'', Duckworth,

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* '' Romance'',

and Ford M. Hueffer, Smith Elder, 1903. * ''The Benefactor'', Langham, 1905. * ''The Soul of London: A Survey of the Modern City'', Alston Rivers, 1905. * ''The Heart of the Country: A Survey of a Modern Land'', Alston Rivers, 1906. * ''The Fifth Queen'' (Part One of '' The Fifth Queen'' trilogy), Alston Rivers, 1906. * ''Privy Seal'' (Part Two of '' The Fifth Queen'' trilogy), Alston Rivers, 1907. * ''The Spirit of the People: An Analysis of the English Mind'', Alston Rivers, 1907. * ''An English Girl'', Methuen, 1907. * ''The Fifth Queen Crowned'' (Part Three of '' The Fifth Queen'' trilogy), 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. * ''The Simple Life Limited'', as Daniel Chaucer, Lane, 1911. * '' Ladies Whose Bright Eyes'', Constable, 1911 (extensively revised in 1935). * ''The Panel: A Sheer Comedy'', Constable, 1912 (published in the U.S. as ''Ring for Nancy: A Sheer Comedy''). * ''The New Humpty Dumpty'', as Daniel Chaucer, Lane, 1912. * ''Henry James'', Secker, 1913. * ''Mr Fleight'', Latimer, 1913. * ''The Young Lovell'', Chatto, 1913. * ''Antwerp'' (eight-page poem), The Poetry Bookshop, 1915. * ''Henry James, A Critical Study'' (1915). * ''Between St. Dennis and St. George'', Hodder, 1915. * ''

'', Lane, 1915. * ''Zeppelin Nights'', with

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, Lane, 1915. * ''The Marsden Case'', Duckworth, 1923. * ''Women and Men'', Paris, 1923. * ''Mr Bosphorous'', Duckworth, 1923. * '' The Nature of a Crime'', with

, Duckworth, 1924. * ''Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance'', Little, Brown and Company, 1924. * '' Some Do Not . . .'', (First in ''Parade's End'' tetralogy) Duckworth, 1924. * '' No More Parades'', Duckworth, 1925. * '' A Man Could Stand Up --'', Duckworth, 1926. * '' A Mirror To France. Duckworth. 1926 * ''New York is Not America'', Duckworth, 1927. * ''New York Essays'', Rudge, 1927. * ''New Poems'', Rudge, 1927. * ''

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'', (Fourth in ''Parade's End'' tetralogy) Duckworth, 1928. * ''A Little Less Than Gods'', Duckworth, 928 * ''No Enemy'', Macaulay, 1929. * ''The English Novel: From the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad'' (One Hour Series), Lippincott, 1929; Constable, 1930. * ''Return to Yesterday'', Liveright, 1932. * ''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 * ''Portraits from Life: Memories and Criticism of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Stephen Crane, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev, W. H. Hudson, Theodore Dreiser, A. C. Swinburne'', Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1937. * ''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. * ''A History of Our Own Times'', Indiana University Press, 1988.

References

External links

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