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Literary Legends. The friends of James who published their reminiscences of him after his death-especially Ford Madox Hueffer-romanticized, to say the least. Nowell-Smith has taken incidents and opinions and anecdotes from a hundred-odd sources-H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Mrs. Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett -and assembled them in the form of a dossier. The result is as absorbing as a good mystery story...
...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...