correction

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:30 PM -0500 11/2/06, Alison Murie wrote:
>  >Wikipedia: "Born *Ford Hermann Hueffer*, he was *Ford Madox Hueffer* before
>>he finally settled on the name *Ford Madox Ford* in honor of his
>>grandfather, the
>>Pre-Raphaelite<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite>painter
>>Ford
>>Madox Brown <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Madox_Brown>, whose
>>biography<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography>he had written."
>>
>>I misspelled his middle name and his original last name.
>>:-(
>  ~~~~~~~~~~
>Ah, yes.  I'm happy to be reminded of all this, which I did actually once
>know. I even have a book of pre-Raphaelite reproductions  that I picked up
>once in a mood of sentimental reflection on the days when Wm Morris was
>such a presence and Wm DeMorgan, a tile-maker in his group, was beginning
>to hatch the series of novels that in another age one had the leisure to
>enjoy (parse that!). BTW, Ford's /Parade's End/ has some awfully good stuff
>in it.  I've been promising myself to reread it for thirty years, but life
>keeps intruding its distractions.

_The Good Soldier_, which I listened to on tape a few months ago,
wasn't bad, but it wasn't my favorite listen/read of the year; it
does seem to have dated a tad.  (I transished from that one to _A
Farewell to Arms_, which I much preferred.)

LH

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