This international society was founded in 1997 to promote knowledge of and interest in the life and works of Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939).
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.
- Weird Modernisms Conference: July 2026
We are thrilled to share the Call for Papers for next year’s… - Patrick Hemingway dies aged 97Stephen Rogers has been in touch to inform us of the news…
- Crazy Kids and their Parisian JournalWe enjoyed this article by Nick Ripatrazone in the Literary Hub about…
- A Day on the Town with Elizabeth von ArnimThe Elizabeth von Arnim Society is hosting a conference this Friday 11…
The second novel of the Parade’s End series, No More Parades was published in 1925. As this second printing of the US edition shows, it was well received!
Open Access IFMFS Articles
Each month we make two sample chapters from the International Ford Madox Ford Studies series available to download free of charge.
Visit this page to see this month’s chapters!
Happy reading!
Contributions Wanted!
We are always interested in Ford-related news (conferences, publications, reviews, interesting discoveries, etc), so please let us know if you spot anything of interest.
Society members may also like to write for the Society Blog – short articles on anything related to Ford and his circle. See this page for examples, and please get in touch if you are interested in contributing something to the Society Blog.
See this page for some ideas!
- In the lists: those desert island titlesBy Paul Skinner Of her ‘desert island books’, the novelist Penelope Lively…
- Deciphering Ford’s Handwriting with AIBy Seamus O’Malley The novelist of epistemological crisis would have had something…
- Ford’s Spurious SisterBy Andrew Gustar Ford Madox Ford has a somewhat complicated family tree,…
