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Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer (/ ˈ h ɛ f ər / HEF-ər); [1] 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.
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by the British writer Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I, and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham and his seemingly perfect marriage, along with that of his two American friends.
Parade's End is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford, first published from 1924 to 1928. The novels chronicle the life of a member of the English gentry before, during and after World War I.
Explore the life and literary contributions of Ford Madox Ford in a detailed biography, delving into his impressive writings and enduring influence brought to you by the Ford Madox Ford Society.
Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, editor, and critic, an international influence in early 20th-century literature. The son of a German music critic, Francis Hueffer, and a grandson of Ford Madox Brown, one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, Ford grew up in a cultured, artistic environment.
Born Ford Hermann Hueffer in Surrey, England, Ford Madox Ford was a prolific poet, novelist, editor, and critic. The grandson of Ford Madox Brown, the painter, and a student of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti, Ford spent his childhood and early adult years among the important intellectual and artistic circles of his day. In 1894 ...
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As Arthur Mizener reckoned in his Ford biography, The Saddest Story (1971), nearly all his anecdotes ‘illuminate the character of the man Ford is describing, or at least the character Ford believed the man to have’. What we remember are the private glimpses of the great interacting with him.
The author of nearly 80 books and the founding editor of two groundbreaking periodicals, the English Review (1908-10) and the transatlantic review (1924), Ford is best known as the writer of The Good Soldier (1915), and the Parade’s End tetralogy (1924-8).
Sep 7, 2012 · 7 September 2012. The life of Ford Madox Ford. Ford's biographer Max Saunders explores the life of one of the most mercurial, protean figures in literary history. By Max Saunders. This year’s television adaptation of Parade’s End has led to an extraordinary surge of interest in Ford Madox Ford.
