Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Conference: Call for Papers
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 “extreme beauty” of her…
Call for Papers: Textual Embodiments
Society members might be interested in the following Call for Papers for an interdisciplinary conference “Textual Embodiments: Remediating Meaning Across the Disciplines”, taking place at Rome Link Campus University on September 11-12,…
Weird Modernisms Programme Announced
The programme has been announced for “Weird Modernisms”, a major conference organised jointly by the Modernist Studies Association and the British Association for Modernist Studies, to be held at Loughborough University on…
Biala at Frieze Masters and Galerie Pavec
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 Paris (October 21-December 20)….
Letters and Literature 1500-2025: Programme now Available
The programme is now available for the “Letters and Literature 1500-2025” conference at the Open University on 5, 6, and 7 November, which is free, online and open to all. There was…
Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World
Ford’s lover Jean Rhys is currently being celebrated in an exhibition at The Michael Werner Gallery in London entitled Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, which “traces Rhys’ biography, as well…
A Day on the Town with Elizabeth von Arnim
The Elizabeth von Arnim Society is hosting a conference this Friday 11 July, 2025 – both in person in New York City, and streaming online. The day will include the launch of…
Call for Papers: ‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’
The Open University has announced a free online only conference, 5-7 November 2025 Further details on the website: https://digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/ The deadline for submissions is 20 June 2025
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…
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…
