Ford maddox ford biography

Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939) was an Englishnovelist, poet, critic, and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early twentieth century English literature.

Ford maddox ford biography

He is now best remembered for The Good Soldier (1915) and the Parade's End tetralogy.

Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford Madox Hueffer before he finally settled on the name Ford Madox Ford in honor of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, whose biography he had written.

Ford was an important figure in the literary movement of Modernism. He helped to pioneer the use of literary techniques associated with Modernism, including the unreliable narrator and the use of non-linear narrative. His two journals published and promoted many of the major Modernist writers, introducing D.

H. Lawrence among others. Modernism coincided with the rise of urban, industrial cultu