1925 and all that (a handful of Fordian notes)
By Paul Skinner Glancing at any recent headline, it may come as no surprise that some of us are willingly absorbed in another year entirely, precisely a hundred years back. In publication…
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…
‘The Turgenev/Flaubert Thing’, by Paul Ottaviano
I am 51 years old. I am not an academic. But I have remained a literary buff all these years. When I was a starry eyed young man of 19, I read War…