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The Ford Madox Ford Society

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This international society was founded in 1997 to promote knowledge of and interest in the life and works of Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939).

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Welcome to the official website of the Ford Madox Ford Society


The author of nearly 80 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 the Parade’s End tetralogy (1924-8). He was also a well-regarded poet, memoirist, critic 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. 

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.

Seamus O'Malley
Society Chair

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Ford c. 1915 © Alfred Cohen, 2000
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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.

Ford and Food

 Last Post 5 will be a special issue on Ford and Food​, guest edited by Helen Chambers:   helenmchambers32@gmail.com

​​Routledge Research Companion

The Routledge Research Companion (image below) to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Ford Studies. Read more.
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Ford on Social Media

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Scholarly Resources

​Critical writing on Ford 

Download sample chapters from International Ford Madox Ford Studies

FMF Society News


Janice Biala Event
A recording of Jason Andrew's very informative lecture, ‘Biala (1903-2000): The Rash Acts of Rescue and Escape’, delivered under the auspices of the Fritz Ascher Society, with Biala's letters splendidly voiced by Julia Gleich,   is now available.

​Many thanks to the Fritz Ascher Society for providing this link to the recording:
 https://youtu.be/W8x21VbWqvc
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Alison Lurie

The death has been announced of Alison Lurie, novelist and critic, at the age of 94, in Ithaca, New York. Her essay, ‘Ford Madox Ford’s Fairy Tales’, several times reprinted, has been frequently cited by Ford scholars.
Reading and Wellbeing
This current blog series has a recent post by our Society chair, Sara Haslam:
https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ies-virtual-community/literature-lockdown/hobar-reading-and-wellbeing-blog
And another by Fordian (and Conradian) Helen Chambers:
https://englishstudies.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2020/06/29/reading-for-wellbeing-on-board-the-torrens/

In Media​

Ford mentioned in the LA Review of Books
In his piece on Martin Amis’s new book (is it a novel? is it a memoir?), Sunil Iyengar remarked: ‘More than once while reading Inside Story, your reviewer harked back to Ford Madox Ford’s 1931 memoir Return to Yesterday, which bears this caveat:

Where it has seemed expedient to me I have altered episodes that I have witnessed but I have been careful never to distort the character of the episode. The accuracies I deal in are the accuracies of my impressions. If you want factual accuracies you must go to … But no, no, don’t go to anyone, stay with me!’
 
The Fordian paragraph from which Iyengar quotes these lines actually begins: ‘So this is a novel’ – but, of course, that might have complicated things even more.

See: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/keeping-it-real-on-martin-amiss-inside-story/

Ford's Fifth Queen trilogy
Eamon Duffy’s ‘In defence of More, a man of principle’ (TLS, 13 November 2020), cites Ford’s Fifth Queen trilogy as ‘the high point of Victorian and Edwardian fictionalizations of the Tudor reformations’, though he remarks that, while Ford’s use of ‘a modernized version of Tudor diction has been praised’, twenty-first century readers ‘are likely to be daunted by its archaism’. He also comments that the trilogy ‘plays fast and loose with the facts of history, a freedom Ford justified on the grounds that “The accuracies I deal in are the accuracies of my impressions”’.

​Ford on ‘inevitability’
Tom Crewe, in ‘On the Shelf’, London Review of Books, 42, 19 (8 October 2020), quotes Ford on ‘inevitability’, while writing about William Godwin's Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are. The passage, in which Ford is discussing ‘the mystic word “justification”’, comes from his Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (1924), 204.
 
Biala in Provincetown
Mary Maxwell, in the latest issue of PN Review (May-June 2020), reviews the 2018 exhibition, Biala: Provincetown Summers.

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