Editing Ford Madox Ford (section)

==Promotion of literature==
In 1908, Ford founded ''[[The English Review]]''. Ford published works by [[Thomas Hardy]], [[H. G. Wells]], [[Joseph Conrad]], [[Henry James]], [[May Sinclair]], [[John Galsworthy]] and [[W. B. Yeats]]; and debuted works of [[Ezra Pound]], [[Wyndham Lewis]], [[D. H. Lawrence]] and [[Norman Douglas]]. Ezra Pound and other Modernist poets in London in the teens particularly valued Ford's poetry as exemplifying treatment of modern subjects in contemporary diction. In 1924, he founded ''The Transatlantic Review'', a journal with great influence on modern literature. Staying with the artistic community in the Latin Quarter of [[Paris]], Ford befriended [[James Joyce]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Gertrude Stein]], Ezra Pound<ref>{{cite book| editor-last= Lindberg-Seyersted| editor-first= Brita| title= Pound/Ford, the story of a literary friendship: the correspondence between Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford and their writings about each other| first1= Ezra| last1= Pound| first2= Ford Madox| last2= Ford| first3= Brita| last3= Lindberg-Seyersted| publisher= New Directions Publishing| year= 1982| isbn= 978-0-8112-0833-8| url= https://archive.org/details/poundfordstoryof00poun}}</ref> and [[Jean Rhys]], all of whom he would publish (Ford was the model for the character Braddocks in Hemingway's ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]''<ref>{{cite book| page= 84| title= Ford Madox Ford: The Essence of His Art| first= Richard| last= Wald| publisher= University of California Press| year= 1964}}</ref>). [[Basil Bunting]] worked as Ford's assistant on the magazine.

As a critic, Ford is known for remarking "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." [[George Seldes]], in his book ''[[Witness to a Century]]'', describes Ford ("probably in 1932") recalling his writing collaboration with Joseph Conrad, and the lack of acknowledgment by publishers of his status as co-author. Seldes recounts Ford's disappointment with Hemingway: "'and he disowns me now that he has become better known than I am.' Tears now came to Ford's eyes." Ford says, "I helped Joseph Conrad, I helped Hemingway. I helped a dozen, a score of writers, and many of them have beaten me. I'm now an old man and I'll die without making a name like Hemingway." Seldes observes, "At this climax Ford began to sob. Then he began to cry."<ref>{{cite book |last=Seldes |first=George |date=1987 |title=Witness to a Century |url=https://archive.org/details/witnesstocentury00seld/page/258 |location=New York |publisher=Ballantine Books |pages=[https://archive.org/details/witnesstocentury00seld/page/258 258–259] |isbn=0345331818 }}</ref>

Hemingway devoted a chapter of his Parisian memoir ''[[A Moveable Feast]]'' to an encounter with Ford at a café in Paris during the early 1920s. He describes Ford "as upright as an ambulatory, well clothed, up-ended hogshead."<ref name= AMFx>{{cite book| first= Ernest| last= Hemingway | title= [[A Moveable Feast]]}}</ref>

During a later sojourn in the United States, Ford was involved with [[Allen Tate]], [[Caroline Gordon]], [[Katherine Anne Porter]] and [[Robert Lowell]] (who was then a student).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Honaker|first1=Lisa|title=Caroline Gordon: A Biography, and: Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love (review)|journal=Modern Fiction Studies|date=Summer 1990|volume=36|issue=2|pages=240–42|doi=10.1353/mfs.0.0714|s2cid=161254508}}</ref> Ford was always a champion of new literature and literary experimentation. In 1929, he published ''The English Novel: From the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad'', a brisk and accessible overview of the history of English novels. He had an affair with [[Jean Rhys]], which ended acrimoniously,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rhys.htm |title=Jean Rhys |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615145356/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rhys.htm |archive-date=15 June 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which Rhys fictionalised in her novel ''[[Quartet (Jean Rhys novel)|Quartet]]''.