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“... between the generations, and the punishments the heart endures for not knowing how to grow old. (FordMadox Ford called it ‘that really greatest of all renderings of atrocious love – of atrociously painful love’, and said that when he wrote ...”

“... tales, she finds illumination in the modern novel, quoting from D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and FordMadox Ford. Meanings for each of us are knotted into the meanings that others find in this novel or that play – a common wealth of thought ...”

“... Mrs Saphira Wallabie Smith. The names at least are a minor addition to Anglo-Indian humour: in a FordMadox Ford novel, one would be a place, the other Head of a beastly Public School for Middle-Class Girls. Kipling was adept at parody. By writing ...”

“... hatred was of dullness, which is very dangerous and can raise a whole nation in its defence.’ FordMadox Ford, in an article written in 1939, agreed about Wilde’s essential harmlessness, but viewed his antics as a mask to cover his own basic ...”

“... even wish myself dead.’ To Wells he complains of ‘creeping imbecility’, and, hearing that FordMadox Ford is in trouble, he is quick to point out that his state is ‘just as bad in its way’. His correspondence with Roger Casement brings ...”

“... Classics series, aligning Freud with other Modernist writers, in the same format as Joyce, Conrad, FordMadox Ford, Woolf and so on. And there should, as with Penguin Modern Classics, be as little scholarly apparatus as possible: only Freud’s ...”

“... is something rather dogged about some aspects of the Pre-Raphaelite work ethic. In April 1855, FordMadox Brown wrote in his diary about the drawing for Work: ‘This is now to me a species of intoxication,’ he exclaims. ‘When I drew in the poor little vixen girl pulling her ...”

“... lingers around his life. Something similar might be said of the woman William married – Lucy Madox Brown, the daughter of FordMadox Brown and his first wife, Elizabeth Bromley. Lucy seems to have been pushed to the side when Elizabeth ...”

“... to act like a believing Catholic’ when he ‘signed his name as sponsor’ for a daughter of FordMadox Ford; Ellmann says he did it ‘though he did not like to stand at the font’. This is evasive language, but we may expect that Joyce, who ...”

“... a long time, have an index card a foot or two from where I write, bearing this consoling line from FordMadox Ford: ‘It is an easy job to say that an elephant, however good, is not a good warthog; for most criticism comes to ...”

“... In the last season of the Belle Epoque, Anatole France was publishing Les Dieux ont soif, FordMadox Ford his Fifth Queen; even Conrad would end his career with a couple of historical fictions, set once more in Napoleonic times. Twenty ...”

“... even the wiry, tortured sculptures of a hundred years later by Lynn Chadwick or Reg Butler. FordMadox Brown’s ‘Mauvais Sujet’ (1863) This drawing, and the finished study by Millais for Christ in the House of His Parents (also of 1849) which hangs beside it, are familiar ...”

“... There is a nasty, perhaps Freudian moment in FordMadox Ford’s novel Some Do Not, in which, in the middle of a conversation, something occurs to the hero Tietjens: ‘Suddenly he thought that he didn’t know for certain that he was the father of his child, and he groaned ...”

“... paintings … No one nowadays is skilful or laborious enough to forge a Meissonier or a FordMadox Brown that would deceive even a professional expert.’ He was wrong about the skill: look at the Giunti Botticelli, which could have been on the easel when he wrote. But slight ...”

“... of accounts with Constable and Turner, and Blake and Palmer, and Crome and the watercolourists and FordMadox Brown, was at all compatible with being a painter ‘in the 20th century’. The pressure of this last question – or indeed of all three – is not to be collapsed into shorthand ...”