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orig. Ford Hermann Hueffer born Dec. 17, 1873, Merton, Surrey, Eng. died June 26, 1939, Deauville, France English novelist, editor, and critic. Ford collaborated with Joseph Conrad on The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). As the founder of the English Review (1908), he generously encouraged younger writers. He was gassed and shell-shocked in World War I; after the war he changed his name to Ford. Of more than 70 published works, his best known are The Good Soldier (1915), a novel about the demise of aristocratic England; and the tetralogy Parade's End Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and Last Post (1928) which explores the breakdown of Edwardian culture and the emergence of new values

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Ford Madox Brown

born April 16, 1821, Calais, Fr. died Oct. 6, 1893, London, Eng. British painter. He studied in Bruges, Antwerp, Paris, and Rome. In Italy (1845) he met Peter von Cornelius, a member of the Nazarenes, who influenced his palette and style. His use of brilliant colour, meticulous handling, and taste for literary subjects had a strong effect on the Pre-Raphaelites, most notably Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His most famous paintings are The Last of England (1852-55), a poignant tribute to emigration, and Work (1852-63), a Victorian social commentary. In 1861 he became a founding member of William Morris's company, for which he designed stained glass and furniture

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