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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Routledge Research Companion Published!

​Taking account of Ford Madox Ford’s entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existing Ford scholarship and to suggest new directions in Ford studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is split into five parts, exploring the scholarly foundations of Ford Madox Ford studies, Ford's literary identity, Ford and place, specific case studies and themes and critical approaches. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for student and scholars in Ford Studies. Read more.
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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

CALL FOR PAPERS: Networking May Sinclair / Les réseaux littéraires de May Sinclair
RECENT CONFERENCE: ‘Ford and Toulon: Biography, Culture and Environment in the 1920s and 1930s’, Université de Toulon, June 28-29, 2019.
​Click here to read more.
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View from Cap Brun
Last Post Launched November 27th.
​The society's new journal, Last Post, was successfully launched at the Authors' Club in London on November 27, 2018.
Read the report here.
WEB FEATURE: Download Sample Chapters from International Ford Madox Ford Studies

In Media

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.
The Last London
Ford Madox Ford features in Ian Sinclair's excellent piece for the London Review of Books. 30 March 2017. Read here.
Remembering the Void
Kate Symondson considers the role of absences in recollecting the First World War. TLS 11 November 2016.
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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