Ford Madox Ford (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alan Judd
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1873-1939
- Setting: Principally London and Paris
- Principal Characters: Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Ezra Pound, Elsie Martindale, Violet Hunt, Stella Bowen, Janice Biala, Alan Tate
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: History, Twentieth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Paris, Polygamy or bigamy, England or English people, Conservatism, Criticism, World War I
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England
Ford Madox Ford was an amazingly prolific writer of novels, works of criticism, and books dealing with the history and culture of his native England. Grandson of one of the eminent Pre-Raphaelite painters, Ford Madox Brown, in 1919 he changed his name from Ford Hermann Hueffer, partly in a delayed reaction to the anti-German sentiment in England occasioned by World War I, partly in homage to the memory of his grandfather. Since he was perpetually short of money, much of Ford’s work was done hastily and carelessly to meet publishers’ deadlines. The novelist Alan Judd in this...
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