Autobiography, biography and Ford Madox Ford's women

Women's History Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 655-670

  Pesemen, Ros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; LITERATURE; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; SPOUSE; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS TOPIC; BIOGRAPHY AS TOPIC; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MARRIAGE; PUBLICATIONS; SPOUSES; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 61449247152     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612029900200226     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Gertrude Stein (1933) The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (London: Bodley Head)
2. On Bowen, Lola Wilkins (1991) Stella Bowen, Australian War Artist, Art and Australia, 28, pp. 493-497
3. Ros Pesman (1995) The Letters of Stella Bowen and Ford Madox Ford, Overland, 139, pp. 19-23
4. Ros Pesman (1996) Duty Free, Australian Women Abroad, pp. 178-183 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press)
5. On Hunt, Barbara Belford (1990) Violet. The Story of the Irrepressible Violet Hunt and Her Circle of Lovers and Friends - Ford Madox Ford, H G Wells, Somerset Maugham, and Henry James (New York: Simon & Schuster)
6. Joan Hardwick (1990) An Immodest Violet. The Life of Violet Hunt (London: Andre Deutsch)
7. On Ford, Max Saunders (1996) Ford Madox Ford. A Dual Life, Vol. 1, The World before the War, Vol. 2, The After-War World (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
8. Bowen to Ford, 24 April 1919, Sondra J. Stang & Karen Cochran (Eds) (1993) The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, p. 99 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)
9. Bowen to Katharine Lamb, 22 June 1947, Bowen papers, Cornell University
10. Violet Hunt (1926) The Flurried Years, p. 47 (London: Hurst & Blackett)
11. Ford Madox Ford to Catherine Hueffer, 3 July 1919, Stow Hill Papers, BH Box 1, File 6, House of Lords Record Office London
12. Joseph Wiesenfarth, The Battle of the Books'. Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, and Ford Madox Ford, unpublished paper
13. Ford Madox Ford (1982) Some Do Not.., Parades End, Introduction, Robie Macaulay, p. 128 (Harmondsworth: Penguin)
14. Robert Secor & Marie Secor (1983) The Return of the Good Soldier: Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt's 1917 Diary, English Literary Studies, Monograph No. 30, p. 29 (University of Victoria, BC)
15. See, for example, Arthur Mizener (1971) The Saddest Story. A Biography of Ford Madox Ford (London: The Bodley Head)
16. Hardwick, An Immodest Violet, pp. 151-152
17. And see, for example, Ford's letter to R. A. Scott James, 6 April 1921, Scott James papers, Harry Ransom Centre, University of Texas at Austin, and to F. S. Flint, 18 October 1921, Flint papers, ibid. Hunt had earlier written to Scott James complaining that if Ford did not uphold the appearance of their union, she was but 'a cast-off mistress'. She supposed that was what she in fact was, and that Ford had protected himself without regard to the consequences for her or her social position. Hunt to Scott James, undated letter, Scott James papers
18. Ros Pesman, Drawn from Life: Stella Bowen and Ford Madox Ford, forthcoming in Robert Hampson & Max Saunders (Eds) Ford Madox Ford's Modernity (London: Macmillan)
19. Julian Barnes, 'O Unforgetting Elephant', New York Review of Books, 9 January 1997, p. 24
20. Wiesenfarth, 'The Battle of the Books'
21. Violet Hunt (1926) I Have This to Say, p. 295 (New York: Boni & Liveright)
22. Bowen to Ford, Monday 13th (December 1926), The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, p. 259
23. Bowen, Drawn from Life, p. 171
24. Quoted in Secor & Secor, The Return of the Good Soldier, p. 26
25. 'I understand that you wouldn't have done it if you hadn't been desperate for money', Janice Biala to Bowen, 29 June 1940, Biala papers, Cornell University
26. Barnes, 'O Unforgetting Elephant', p. 24
27. Hunt, The Flurried Years, p. 18
28. Bowen to Ford, 3 January 1928, The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, p. 373
29. Bowen to Biala, 20 July 1935, Biala papers
30. Carolyn Heilbrun (1988) Writing a Woman's Life, pp. 20-21 (New York: The Women's Press)
31. Joy Hooton (1992) Autobiography and Gender, in Susan Magarey (Ed.) Writing Lives: feminist biography and autobiography, pp. 30-31 (Adelaide: Australian Feminist Studies Publications)
32. Estelle Jelinek (1980) Women's Autobiography: essays in criticism, p. 18 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)
33. Susan Groag Bell & Marilyn Yalom (Eds) (1986) Revealing Lives: autobiography, biography and gender, p. 4 (New York: State University Press of New York)
34. On the role of partners in creativity, Ruth Perry & Martine Brownley (Eds) (1984) Mothering the Mind: twelve studies of writers and their silent partners (New York and London: Holmes & Meier)
35. Whitney Chadwick & Isabelle de Courtivron (Eds) (1993) Significant Others: creativity and intimate partnership (London: Thames & Hudson)
36. Quoted in Susan Stanford Friedman (1988) Women's Autobiographical Selves: theory and practice, in Shari Benstock (Ed.) The Private Self: theory and practice of women's autobiographical writing, pp. 45-46 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
37. Deirdre Bair (1990) Simone de Beauvoir. A Biography, p. 469 (New York: Summit Books)
38. For Browning and van Gogh, Mothering the Mind
39. for Hellman, Bernard Benstock, Non-negotiable Bonds. Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, in Chadwick & de Courtivron, Significant Others, p. 174
40. Carol Pearson & Katherine Pope (1981) The Female Hero in British and American Literature (New York: Bowker)
41. Estella Lauter & Carol Schreier Rupprecht (Eds) (1985) Feminist Archetypal Theory: interdisciplinary revisions of Jungian thought (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press)
42. Barbara G. Walker (1996) Feminist Fairy Tales (Sydney: Bantam Books)
43. This is the definition of Joyce Antler in Having It All, Almost: confronting the legacy of Lucy Sprague Mitchell (1992) in Sara Alpern, Joyce Antler, Elisabeth Israels Perry & Ingrid Winther Scobie (Eds) The Challenge of Feminist Biography: writing the lives of modern American women, p. 110 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press)
44. Bowen to Ford, 9 November 1926, The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, p. 218
45. On Hadley Hemingway's biography, Linda Wagner-Martin (1994) Telling Women's Lives, pp. 48-49 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press)
46. Bowen to Ford, 4 May 1919, The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, p. 120
47. Pesman, Drawn from Life. Autobiography and Biography
48. In her concern that the public record should not present her as a deserted wife, Bowen had something in common with Violet Hunt's obsession with public appearances when Ford was leaving her for Bowen, an obsession to which Bowen was sensitive at the time. Ford had informed his mother in July 1919 that he continued to appear at Hunt's parties at Bowen's request: 'she wishes to save Violet the mortification of appearing officially deserted'. Ford to Catherine Hueffer, 3 July 1919
49. Biala to Bowen, 15-17 September 1945, Biala Papers
50. Bowen to Biala, 31 July 1945[?], ibid
51. Paul John Eakin (1992) Writing Biography: a perspective from autobiography, in Ian Donaldson, Peter Read & James Walter (Eds) Shaping Lives: reflections on biography, p. 201 (Canberra: Humanities Research Centre)
52. See also Paul John Eakin (1985) Fiction in Autobiography: studies in the art of self invention (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
53. Robert Skidelsky (1988) Only Connect: biography and truth, in Eric Homberger & John Charmley (Eds) The Troubled Face of Biography, p. 13 (London: Macmillan)