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Ford Madox Ford
English writer and publisher (–)
Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer (HEF-ər);[1] 17 December – 26 June ) 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 The Good Soldier (), the Parade's Endtetralogy (–) and The Fifth Queentrilogy (–). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library's Best Novels, The Observer's " Greatest Novels of All Time", and The Guardian's "1, novels everyone must read".
Early life
[edit]Ford was born in Merton in Surrey[2] 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 The Times, was German and his mother English. His paternal grandfather Johann Hermann Hüffer was first to publish Westphalian poet and author Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. He was named after his maternal grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painte
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Biography
by Anthony Domestico
Ford Madox Ford (), poet, novelist, essayist, and editor, was an important figure in the beginning years of the modernist movement. Ford’s poetry, although not studied much today, was considered elegant and formally interesting in its day; both Ezra Pound and D.H. Lawrence thought Ford one of the best poets of the ’s, and his style had an important influence on the Imagist movement. His finest novel, The Good Soldier (), features one of modernism’s best examples of the unreliable narrator; it is both a damning exploration of Edwardian sexual hypocrisy and an experiment in narrative mediation. The two journals for which Ford served as editor, the English Review and the Transatlantic Review, were incredibly important organs for the dissemination of modernist poetry and prose.
Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in Merton, Surrey in into a family that was firmly ensconced within the artistic scene: his grandfather was the pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, his uncle was William Michel Rossetti, and Ford spent time with Swinburne, Dante Gabriel, and Christina Rossetti while young. After traveling a great deal during his childhood, Ford attended the University College School in London. At the age of nineteen, he conve
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