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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Ford c. 1915 © Alfred Cohen, 2000
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ARMISTICE 2018

Darling:
Just a note to say I love you more than ever. Peace has come, & for some reason I feel inexpressibly sad. I suppose it is the breaking down of the old strain!
– Ford Madox Ford to Stella Bowen, 11 Nov. 1918, Redcar

Click HERE to read about Ford's Parade's End tetralogy: ‘the finest novel about the First World War’ (Anthony Burgess)
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Ford and Ezra Pound — Rapallo, Italy. Circa 1932
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Ford Madox Ford at the Bungalow, Winchelsea, c. 1903 (Reproduced by kind permission of the Hon. Oliver Soskice)
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Latest Society News

Last Post: A Literary Journal - Launch

Join us at the Authors' Club in London on November 27 to celebrate the launch of our new journal. See the Upcoming and Recent Events page for more information and to book your place at this free event.
Biala: Provincetown Summers. Click here to read more.
First Post Now Available: The first number of the new society newsletter is now available to all members. Look for it in your mailbox.
Montpellier Conference Report: A report on the latest society conference, Ford Madox Ford and the Other. Read Here
WEB FEATURE: Download Sample Chapters from International Ford Madox Ford Studies

In Media

The Last London
Ford Madox Ford features in Ian Sinclair's excellent piece for the London Review of Books. 30 March 2017. Read here.
Ford Madox Ford, Brexit & Trump 
On the occasion of Ford's birthday, December 17th. By Dr. Sara Haslam for Wordsworth Editions. Read here.
Remembering the Void
Kate Symondson, writing for the TLS (11/11/16)
An examination of the modernist approach to writing the First World War, including Ford's Parade's End, and featuring Seamus O'Malley's book, Making History New (Oxford University Press, 2014) Read here.
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