“The appeal of the subject is nevertheless the only thing that is open to your native genius—the only thing as to which you can say: I cannot help it: that is what appealed to me.”
About Ford Madox Hueffer
17 December 1873–26 June 1939
Ford Madox Hueffer, who later became Ford Madox Ford, was born on 17 December 1873 in Merton, Surrey, then a semi-rural district on the edge of London, and died on 26 June 1939 in Deauville, France. He was one of the most energetic and consequential literary figures of the transition from late Victorian culture to…