Word: hueffer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Ford Madox Ford was just such a neglected writer. He was the son of the London Times's erudite German music critic, Dr. Francis Hueffer (the son changed his surname to Ford after World War I), as well as a grandson of Victorian Painter Ford Madox Brown and a cousin of the Rossetti family. A precocious schoolboy, he began writing while still in his teens, but almost from the beginning he showed that the only noise he was likely to make would be in praise of others...
...social history. It was Ford's belief that the industrial revolution had broken the back of the traditional England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical mechanism in which God, Man, and Nature have a balanced relationship...