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Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford 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.
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culture · English writer and publisher (1873–1939) · writer · poet · novelist · publisher · literary critic · journalist · prose writer · also Ford Madox Ford, Ford Hermann Hueffer, Ford Madox Hueffer, Ford
Born 17 December 1873 · Died 26 June 1939 · Q537112
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2023· 1 entry
Indiatimes: Deceit and Betrayal Unveiled: 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford
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2021· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Vol. 3, 2004, History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford's Writings
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2018· 1 entry
Laweekly: Ford Madox Ford's "Dark American Night"
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2015· 3 entries
The Guardian: Ford Madox Ford: as scary as HP Lovecraft?
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The Guardian: March’s Reading group: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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The Guardian: Baddies in books: Sylvia Tietjens in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: The 100 best novels: No 41 - The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
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2012· 3 entries
The Guardian: Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford – review
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The Guardian: Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
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Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and scripted by Tom Stoppard
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2010· 2 entries
The Australian Financial Review: Ford Madox Ford – an imagined life found in the south of France
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The Guardian: Ford Madox Ford's passionate affair with Provence
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1996· 1 entry
Followed up by a single volume focusing on two of Ford's novels, The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–1928), in 2023
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the development of the neutron diffraction technique.
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule.
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy.
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1956· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
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1939· 1 entry
Died 1939-06-26.
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1929· 1 entry
Published The English Novel: From the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad, a brisk and accessible overview of the history of English novels
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1924· 1 entry
Founded The Transatlantic Review, a journal with great influence on modern literature
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1920· 1 entry
Ford and Bowen had a daughter, Julia Madox Ford
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1919· 2 entries
Ford used the name of Ford Madox Hueffer, but changed it to Ford Madox Ford after World War I in 1919, partly to fulfil the terms of a small legacy, partly "because a Teutonic name is in these days disagreeable", and possibly to avoid further lawsuits from Elsie in the event of his new companion being referred to as "Mrs.
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Partly to fulfil the terms of a small legacy, partly "because a Teutonic name is in these days disagreeable", and possibly to avoid further lawsuits from Elsie in the event of his new companion being referred to as "Mrs
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1909· 1 entry
Ford left his wife and set up home with English writer Isobel Violet Hunt, with whom he published the literary magazine The English Review
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1908· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.
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Ford founded The English Review
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1904· 2 entries
Ford suffered an agoraphobic breakdown due to financial and marital problems
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In 1904, Ford suffered an agoraphobic breakdown due to financial and marital problems.
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1894· 1 entry
Ford eloped with his school girlfriend Elsie Martindale
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1889· 1 entry
After the death of their father, Ford and Oliver went to live with their grandfather in London
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-12-17.
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