Welcome to the official website of the Ford Madox Ford Society

The author of over eighty books and the founding editor of two groundbreaking periodicals, the English Review (1908-10) and the transatlantic review (1924), Ford is best known as the writer of The Good Soldier (1915), and Parade’s End (1924-8). He was also a well-regarded poet, memoirist and cultural impressionist, including among his works a ‘personal remembrance’ of Joseph Conrad and a number of books about his ‘Pre-Raphaelite childhood’.

This site has been designed to provide information about the Society’s activities, about Ford’s life and work, and about the published work and scholarship available on Ford. 

As of 2014 there is a North American chapter of the Society, formed to advance interest in Ford in the US.

If you are an admirer, an enthusiast, a reader, a scholar, or a student of anything Fordian, then this society would like to hear from you, and welcomes your participation in its activities.

Sara Haslam
Society Chair
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The first and second issues of Last Post are now available for open access download! 

In light of the current pandemic, which interrupted shipments to some of our members and contributors, the Ford Society is pleased to announce the early electronic release of our second issue of Last Post. Click here to find out more and download the full issues.

Routledge Research Companion published!

The Routledge Research Companion (image below) to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for student and scholars in Ford Studies. Read more.
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Ford c. 1915 © Alfred Cohen, 2000
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A Life in Letters: Ford Madox Ford - A new blog from Pablo Scheffer of King's College, London.
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/english/a-life-in-letters-ford-madox-ford/​

In Media

The Knap, Selsey
Artist Jennifer Mosley has written an interesting piece on her blog about the Selsey cottage where she spent much of her childhood and which had been rented by Violet Hunt during the years of her relationship with Ford:
https://www.thewrenandthewritingdesk.com/blog-1/knapp-cottage-1
 
Biala in Provincetown
Mary Maxwell, in the latest issue of PN Review (May-June 2020), reviews the 2018 exhibition, Biala: Provincetown Summers.

Mathilde Blind
The Times Literary Supplement (8 May 2020) included Margaret Drabble’s ‘Scholarship girls: Making peace with Mathilde Blind’. Ancient Lights suggests that  Blind was not a favourite figure in the life of the young Ford Madox Ford.

A Reconstructionary Tale?
In ‘Tales of Reconstruction’ (Times Literary Supplement, 3 January 2020), ‘Some nominations for out-of-print books that deserve to be rediscovered and republished’, Alexandra Harris selected Ford’s No Enemy: A Tale of Reconstruction.

No More Parades End
Ford Madox Ford’s last library and what it tells us about ‘the Tietjens saga’, by Sara Haslam. TLS, 5 June 2018. Read here.
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