The Queen Who Flew by Ford Madox Ford - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Ford Madox Ford

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788777544

Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was an English novelist, poet, and editor. Born in Wimbledon, Ford was the son of Pre-Raphaelite artist Catherine Madox Brown and music critic Francis Hueffer. In 1894, he eloped with his girlfriend Elsie Martindale and eventually settled in Winchelsea, where they lived near Henry James and H. G. Wells. Ford left his wife and two daughters in 1909 for writer Isobel Violet Hunt, with whom he launched The English Review, an influential magazine that published such writers as Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Ezra Pound, and D. H. Lawrence. As Ford Madox Hueffer, he established himself with such novels as The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903), cowritten with Joseph Conrad, and The Fifth Queen (1906-1907), a trilogy of historical novels. During the Great War, however, he began using the penname Ford Madox Ford to avoid anti-German sentiment. The Good Soldier (1915), considered by many to be Ford’s masterpiece, earned him a reputation as a leading novelist of his generation and continues to be named among the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Recognized as a pioneering modernist for his poem “Antwerp” (1915) and his tetralogy Parade’s End (1924-1928), Ford was a friend of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Rhys. Despite his reputation and influence as an artist and publisher who promoted the early work of some of the greatest English and American writers of his time, Ford has been largely overshadowed by his contemporaries, some of whom took to disparaging him as their own reputations took flight.

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The Complete Works of

FORD MADOX FORD

VOLUME 3 OF 46

The Queen Who Flew

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By Delphi Classics, 2013

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‘The Queen Who Flew’

Ford Madox Ford: Parts Edition (in 46 parts)

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Ford Madox Ford: Parts Edition

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FORD MADOX FORD

IN 46 VOLUMES

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  The Children’s Fiction

1, The Brown Owl

2, The Feather

3, The Queen Who Flew

The Novels

4, The Shifting of the Fire

5, The Inheritors

6, Romance

7, The Benefactor

8, The Fifth Queen

9, The Privy Seal

10, An English Girl

11, The Fifth Queen Crowned

12, Mr. Apollo

13, The ‘Half Moon’

14, A Call

15, The Portrait

16, The Simple Life Limited

17, Ladies Whose Bright Eyes

18, The Panel

19, The New Humpty-Dumpty

20, Mr. Fleight

21, The Young Lovell

22, The Good Soldier

23, The Marsden Case

24, Some Do Not…

25, The Nature of a Crime

26, No More Parades

27, A Man Could Stand Up

28, Last Post

29, A Little Less Than Gods

30, No Enemy

31, When the Wicked Man

32, The Rash Act

33, Henry for Hugh

34, Vive Le Roy

The Poetry

35, The Collected Poems

Non-Fiction

36, The Soul of London

37, The Heart of the Country

38, Rossetti: A Critical Essay on His Art

39, The Spirit of the People

40, Henry James: A Critical Study

41, Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance

The Memoirs

42, Ancient Lights and Certain New Reflections

43, Return to Yesterday

44, It Was the Nightingale

45, Provence

46, Great Trade Route

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The Queen Who Flew

The original frontispiece by Sir E. Burne Jones

 TO

A PRINCESS OF THE OLD TIME BEFORE US

THIS TALE IS DUE AND DEDICATED.

Over the leas the Princess came,

On the sward of the cliffs that breast the sex,

With her checks aglow and her hair a flame,

That snared the eyes and blinded them,

And now is but a memory.

Over the leas, the wind-tossed dream,

Over the leas above the sea,

Posset and went to reign supreme.

 — No need of a crown or diadem

In the kingdom of misty Memory.

THE QUEEN WHO FLEW.

ONCE upon a time a Queen sat in her garden. She was quite a young, young Queen; but that was a long while ago, so she would be older now. But, for all she was Queen over a great and powerful country, she led a very quiet life, and sat a great deal alone in her garden watching the roses grow, and talking to a bat that hung, head downwards, with its wings folded, for all the world like an umbrella, beneath the shade of a rose tree overhanging her favourite marble seat. She did not know much about the bat, not even that it could fly, for her servants and nurses would never allow her to be out at dusk, and the bat was a great deal too weak-eyed to fly about in the broad daylight But, one summer day, it happened that there was a revolution in the land, and the Queen’s servants, not knowing who was likely to get the upper hand, left the Queen all alone, and went to look at the fight that was raging.

But you must understand that in those days a revolution was a thing very different from what it would be to-day.

Instead of trying to get rid of the Queen altogether, the great nobles of the kingdom merely fought violently with each other for possession of the Queen’s person. Then they would proclaim themselves Regents of the kingdom and would issue bills of attainder against all their rivals, saying they were traitors against the Queen’s Government In fact, a revolution in those days was like what is called a change of Ministry now, save for the fact that they were rather fond of indulging themselves by decapitating their rivals when they had the chance, which of course one would never think of doing nowadays.

The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon — about the weather and about the revolution and the colour of cats and the like.

The raven will have a good time of it for a day or two, the bat said.

But the Queen shuddered. Don’t be horrid, she said.

I wonder who’ll get the upper hand? the bat said.

I’m sure I don’t care a bit, the Queen retorted. It doesn’t make any difference to me. They all give me things to sign, and they all say I’m very beautiful.

That’s because they want to marry you, the bat said.

And the Queen answered, "I suppose it is; but I shan’t marry them. And I wish all my attendants weren’t deaf and dumb; it makes it so awfully dull for me."

"That’s so