The Fifth Queen

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The three series of The Fifth Queen are linked historic stories by British author Ford Madox Ford. It contains three books, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Cour, Privy Seal and The Fifth Queen Crowned, which show a great dramatized tale of Katharine Howard’s marriage to King Henry VIII. The Fifth Queen comes in three parts: The Coming, The House of Eyes, and The King Moves.

Ford Madox Ford born Ford Hermann Hueffer was an author, poet, critic and editor whose periodicals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were influential in the progress of the first years of the 20th century English literature.

Ford is commemorated today for his stories such as The Good Soldier, the Parade’s End tetralogy and The Fifth Queen trilogy. The Good Soldier is often comprised in one of the finest literature of the 20th century, consisting the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer′s “100 Greatest Novels of All Time”, and The Guardian′s “1000 novels everyone must read”.

Ford was born in Wimbledon to Catherine Madox Brown and Francis Hueffer, his brother was Oliver Madox Hueffer. Ford’s father, a German, became a music critic for The Times, and his mother was British. His father’s grandfather Johann Hermann Hüffer was the earliest to release Westphalian poet and writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.

Ford made use of the name of Ford Madox Hueffer, but then he changed it to Ford Madox Ford, presumably after the First World War because “Hueffer” is way very Germanic, in respect of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown, whose biography he had authored.

Upon his father’s death, Ford and Oliver went to reside with their grandfather in London. Ford finished his studies from the University College School in London, but did not enroll at the university.
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