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…
Mary de Rachewiltz
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 a…
Impressions of the Weird Modernisms Conference, 1-4 July 2026
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…
John Coyle
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…
At Dungeness
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…
Little Mags and revisiting Provence
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…
The Guardian’s 100 Best Novels
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…
Villino Hüffer
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…
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…
