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Excerpt from Ford Madox Hueffer
Toward the end of this period Hueffer came to know well his neighbor Joseph Conrad and collaborated with him on two novels, The Inheritor; and Romance This marks for Hueffer the beginning of a rather industrious period of novel writing. He was already resuming connexion with London life although he retained his Kentish home. In the year 1911 he suddenly realized that he had grown up and wrote for his children, Christina and Katherine, Ancient Light; and Certain New Re ?ections, Memorie: of a Young Man. He tells them in the preface that he wants to preserve for them the story of his life, to save them pains he has suffered, and to compare his childhood days with theirs. This is another way of saying that his critical faculties have developed, a fact which is sufficiently attested by his collection of essays that appeared about the same time called The Critical Attitude. In the year 1914 he set himself down to the task of analyzing seriously the technique of Henry James, whose work he so much admired. Naturally then, his novel The Good Soldier (1915) is even more strongly reminiscent than his earlier fiction of his master. In the year 1915 appeared two anti-prussian volumes from Hueffer's hand, both of them notable for the mass of material they marshal together and the deliberate ness of judgment they display, but Hueffer suddenly resolved to contribute blood instead of sweat and ink to the cause. What led him to this step is very clear. It was the death of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier and the death at the same time of another boy - but quite a commonplace, nice boy. Although he was forty-four years of age, Hueffer managed in 1917 to secure a second lieutenancy in the British army. The product of the next two years was a collection of Poems Written on Active Service.
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