Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939)
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Born Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer in England in 1873, Ford Madox Ford came from a family of artists and writers that included his grandfather, the pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, and his uncles Gabriel Dante Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti. Ford's early works were published under the näytä lisää name Ford Madox Hueffer, but in 1919 he legally changed his name to Ford Madox Ford due to legal complications that arose when he left his wife, Elsie Martindale, and their two daughters. He also used the pen names Daniel Chaucer and Fenil Haig. Ford's early works include The Brown Owl, a fairy tale, children's stories, romances, and The Fifth Queen, a historical trilogy about Katherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII. He also collaborated with Joseph Conrad, whom he first met in 1898, on three novels: The Nature of Crime, The Inheritors, and Romance. Ford is best known for his novels The Good Soldier, which he considered both his first serious effort at a novel and his best work, and Parade's End, a tetralogy set during World War I. Both of these books explore a theme that appears often in Ford's writing, that of a good man whose old-fashioned, gentlemanly code is in conflict with modern industrial society. Ford also published several volumes of autobiography and reminiscences, including Return to Yesterday and It Was the Nightengale, as well as numerous works of biography, history, poetry, essays, travel writing, and criticism of literature and art. Although Ford and Martindale never divorced, Ford had significant, long-term relationships with three other women, all of whom took his name; he had another daughter by one of them. He died in Deauville, France, in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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- Virallinen nimi
- Hueffer, Ford Hermann(born)
Ford, Ford Madox(changed during WW1)
Hueffer, Ford Madox - Muut nimet
- Haig, Fenil
Chaucer, Daniel - Syntymäaika
- 1873-12-17
- Kuolinaika
- 1939-06-26
- Hautapaikka
- Deauville, Frankrijk
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Merton, Surrey, Engeland, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Deauville, Frankrijk
- Asuinpaikat
- Merton, Surrey, Engeland, UK
London, Engeland, UK
Parijs, Frankrijk
Olivet, Michigan, USA
Deauville, Frankrijk - Koulutus
- University College School, Londen, Engeland, UK
- Ammatit
- Schrijver
Uitgever
Leraar
Redacteur
Dichter
Criticus - Suhteet
- Brown, Ford Madox (Grootvader)
Hueffer, Francis (Vader)
Hueffer, Oliver Madox (Broer)
Hunt, Violet (Geliefde) - Organisaatiot
- Olivet College(Michigan)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Doctor of Literature, Olivet College (1938)
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), English novelist, poet, critic and editor; born as Ford Hermann Hueffer becoming Ford Madox Hueffer before settling on the name Ford Madox Ford
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This novel is also an early example of literary impressionism, a style that we take for granted today. Ford takes a roundabout path to telling his story, providing us with an after-the-fact narrator John Dowell who tends to ramble and gets things out of order. Immediately we know who dies, so that's the hook to exploring why. John contradicts himself on occasion, or says something offhand that startles but then he doesn't address it immediately, and some of his adjectives take on a fresh meeting later. Rather than frustrating, however, it creates a layer of mystery and need-to-know that keeps the pages turning.
John is a significant example of an unreliable narrator, his judgements and feelings about what transpired shifting in several directions. Only the concluding pages provide confirmation where his true sympathy lies, when his actions speak louder than his words. Ford is suggesting through John that sometimes our passions are too much for the artificial constructs of society to contain - our religious moralities, our marriage contracts, our collective sense of decency. That someone who is destroyed when they run counter to these may be too well understood to be considered a villain, given the base desires most of us share; except that this characterization too must to be done, so the rest of us can go on with our orderliness and stability to win whatever happiness remains.… (lisätietoja)