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Ford was a champion of the early novels of Elizabeth Madox Roberts – The Time of Man (1926) and My Heart and My Flesh (1927) – praising the “e…

We were sorry to hear that Mary de Rachewiltz, Ezra Pound’s daughter by Olga Rudge, died on 24 July at Brunnenberg in Merano, Italy, at the age of 101. She was …

By Gillian Gustar Any conference offering around 120 panels, round tables and workshops over four days, not to mention three keynote speeches, 26 seminars and l…

We were sorry to hear from George Thomas that John Coyle sadly passed away in March at the age of 69. John was Honorary Senior Research Fellow and former Head o…

Ford Society members might be interested in a review ‘At Dungeness’ by Susannah Clapp on p.26 of the latest London Review of Books. It is a review o…

A couple of recent Fordian news items might be of interest to Society members… Little Magazines Sara Haslam has been in touch to point out this letter to …

We were delighted to see that The Good Soldier has made it onto The Guardian‘s list of the 100 best novels of all time, being “a countdown of the gr…

For anyone considering a trip to Italy next year, Max Saunders has drawn our attention to the opening in 2027 of MUDEM (Museo della Moneta), the Bank of Italy&#…

Society members might be interested in the following Call for Papers for an interdisciplinary conference “Textual Embodiments: Remediating Meaning Across …

The programme has been announced for “Weird Modernisms”, a major conference organised jointly by the Modernist Studies Association and the British A…

A significant copy of Ford’s The Good Soldier has appeared on the market, offering a tangible link between Ford and James Baldwin (1924–1987), one of the 20th c…

We were sorry to learn, somewhat belatedly, of the death of Society member George Wickes, who passed away last October at the age of 102. A longtime professor a…

We have just received the Spring 2026 newsletter from the Alliance of Literary Societies, the umbrella organisation for literary societies and groups in the UK.…

We were delighted to see Colm Tóibín’s recommendation in this weekend’s Guardian of The Good Soldier as a perfect Christmas gift. We would, of cours…

A few weeks ago we announced forthcoming exhibitions of works by Janice Biala at Frieze Masters in London and at Galerie Pavec in Paris. Society members might b…

A new article by Seamus O’Malley, “One of Those Stupendous Mornings of Human Thought”: Ford’s Cycles of Literary History, has just been published online i…

Society members might be interested in an article “Ford Madox Ford’s Letters, Life Writing, and Editing for a New Era” by Max Saunders and Sara Hasl…

Jason Andrew, Director of the Estate of Janice Biala, has been in touch to share two opportunities to see the paintings of Biala in London (October 15-19) and P…