Backlisted Ford
The excellent Backlisted, the literary podcast presented by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller, has launched a series of live shows at Foyles in central London. It kicked off with a discussion of The Good…
MHRA Interview
Barbara Burns of the Modern Humanities Research Association talks to Professor Max Saunders (University of Birmingham), Co-Editor of The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford (OUP), and Dr Lucinda Borkett-Jones, the project’s MHRA Research…
Ford Madox (Hueffer) Ford letters sought!
The editors of the multi-volume Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford for Oxford University Press would be glad to hear from anyone holding letters from (or to) Ford, or about him, or…
Call for Papers: Lisbon, 9-10 November 2023
International Symposium Ford Madox Ford. At the dawn of an era, organised by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAU). The conference will be held in a mixed format (on site and…
A New Forest Typo Part 2: The Inhabitants of Lyburn Park
By Andrew Gustar In the first part of this post, I discovered that Branshaw Teleragh – location of Edward and Leonora Ashburnham’s house in Ford’s The Good Soldier – was based on a misprint on…
A New Forest Typo Part 1: The Origins of Branshaw Teleragh
By Andrew Gustar In the early 1800s, a message could be sent between Plymouth and London in a matter of minutes. The Admiralty Shutter Telegraph, devised by Lord George Murray during the…
News from the Lamb family archives: Elsie speaks
By Sara Haslam August 1893: The Questions at the Well by Fenil Haig [the first of many pseudonyms Ford used] was published by Digby, Long & Co., dedicated to Miss Elsie Martindale. Aside from…
Announcing a new project! The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford, in 6 volumes.
Ford was a superb letter-writer, and yet the vast majority of his c.3,000 known letters remains unavailable in published versions. The Society is delighted to announce a new project to address this…
Farewell from the outgoing Chair, Sara Haslam
On Friday 29 January, the Society Executive Committee met virtually for an event to mark the end of my term of office as Chair. I took over from our illustrious founding Chair,…
Ford and Toulon: Biography, Culture and Environment in the 1920s and 1930s
June 28-29, 2019 Université de Toulon, Ford Madox Ford Society This conference brought together scholars working on Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), a major twentieth-century novelist, editor and cultural commentator, forming part of…
