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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Ford Madox Ford: Photo courtesy of Division of Rare and Manuscripts Collections, Cornell University
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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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Click on the image to read about Parade's End
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Latest Society News

​TRIBUTE TO THOMAS C. MOSER The Ford Society would like to acknowledge the sad news that Thomas C. Moser has recently died, aged 92. Tom will be known to most Fordian scholars as author of The Life in the Fiction of Ford Madox Ford, published in 1981. There will be an opportunity for Fordians who knew and worked with Tom to write something for the site over the coming weeks, and/or contribute to a professional tribute at upcoming conferences, but meanwhile our thoughts are with his family and friends.
EDITING MODERNISM CONFERENCE: A report on the Editing Modernism/Modernist Editing, Edinburgh Napier Conference Read Here
LITERATURE AT WAR CONFERENCE: Read the report from Ford Society Chair, Sara Haslam on the conference held at  Kings College, London, September 19, featuring work on Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells and their contemporaries. Read here

WEB FEATURE: Download Sample Chapters from International Ford Madox Ford Studies

Q&A with Sam Jordison and the Guardian book group on Ford's masterpiece, The Good Soldier. Read here

Ford in Media

Ford Madox Ford: as scary as HP Lovecraft? (Ned Beauman, The Guardian, August 2015)

Baddies in Books: Sylvia Tietjens: "You can't dismiss Sylvia. She is Ford's greatest creation" (Moira Redmond, The Guardian, January 2015)
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