Ford Madox Ford (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Ford Madox Ford’s father was a music critic of German origin, Franz Xaver Hueffer; his mother was Catherine Ernely Madox Brown, the daughter of the pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown. He was a privileged child who grew up in a home where he was exposed early to artistic and literary influences; he received his formal schooling at Praetoria House and University College School, London. At the age of eighteen he traveled on the Continent and became a Roman Catholic to please his rich German relatives.
The Brown Owl, a fairy story, marked Ford’s debut in print in 1891....
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