Word: hueffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London with his efforts to get a toehold in a world that had forgotten him while he was fighting for it. E. V. Lucas told him that he was not really English because he did not appreciate Punch. (He had served all through the War under his family name, Hueffer-his father was German-and changed it in 1919 for post-War reasons.) After a term of editing the English Review which he had founded in 1908, Ford retired to a tumbledown country cottage to live by writing and raising vegetables. He acquired a goat, a drake, a rook...
...HUEFFER (Ford Madox) Between St. Dennis and St. George...
...HUEFFER (Ford Madox) The Panel...
...HUEFFER (H. Ford) The Shifting of the Fire. Scarce...
Ford got off to a good start in the literary world by being born into the midst of the pre-Raphaelite group. Né Hueffer, he carried his German name all through the War (he served as officer in the British Army), changed it to Ford in 1919. As a very young man he began to make the acquaintance of literary notables. Henry James he admired rather than liked. "He had great virility, energy, persistence, dignity and an astonishing keenness of observation. And upon the whole he was the most masterful man I have ever...