News relating to Ford or the Ford Madox Ford Society, or of interest to Society members
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 lunchtime and evening activities, was always going…
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 of the…
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 of Dominic Gregory’s Lifeboat at…
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 the London Review of…
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 greatest literature ever…
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’s Money Museum, to…
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,…
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…
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 century’s most influential American voices:…
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 at the University of…
