''The Transatlantic Review'' (often styled ''the transatlantic review'') was an influential monthly

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edited by

Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review'' were instrumental in ...

in 1924. The magazine was based in Paris but was published in London by

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's ''

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''. The magazine also contained works by

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, and Baroness

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self ...

. The magazine was funded by John Quinn, who had been persuaded by

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to give money to Ford for the publication of a literary magazine. Ernest Hemingway was the guest editor of the August 1924 edition. In 1959, Joseph F. McCrindle founded a literary magazine and named it the ''

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'' in honour of Ford's 1924 magazine.

References

*Bernard J. Poli (1967). ''Ford Madox Ford and the Transatlantic Review'' (Syracuse University Press) 1924 disestablishments in France 1924 establishments in France Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom Ford Madox Ford Magazines established in 1924 Magazines disestablished in 1924 Magazines published in London Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom {{Europe-lit-mag-stub