Record Number: 34340
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Ford on recalling when at the age of seven he met Turgenev at his grandfather Ford Madox Brown's studio: 'I was conscious simply of a singular, compassionate smile that still seems to me to look up out of the pages of his books when—as I constantly do, and always with a sense of amazement—I re-read them.' Ford also also wrote that he re-read him when he was depressed—perhaps precisely because his personality still felt like an antidote to intimidation [...]'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:Unknown
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Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:17 Dec 1873
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[various works]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsAlmost certainly all read after 1895 when Constance Garnett's translations first appeared.
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:34340
Source:Max Saunders
Editor:n/a
Title:Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: The World before the War
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1996
Vol:1
Page:32-33
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Max Saunders, Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: The World before the War, (Oxford, 1996), 1, p. 32-33, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34340, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Ford often referred to Turgenev's work, particularly 'A Sportsman's s Sketches', in his memoirs and letters. He believed 'Byelshin Prairie' to be the finest exemplary writing imaginable. For more on Ford and Turgenev see Max Saunders in 'Ford Madox Ford's Literary Contacts', ed. by Paul Skinner, International Ford Madox Ford Studies 6, Rodopi, 2007, pp. 63-78. Ford and Joseph Conrad and others in their circle such as John Galsworthy, in the early 1900s, were all very much under the influence of Turgenev in various ways during their writing lives. See also ID 34307 and ID 20139.
