The Market for Ford First Editions
By Andrew Gustar The market for books is notoriously tricky to quantify. It is easy to find which titles have been published, but very hard to discover how many copies were printed…
Touching, if not converging, worlds: Ford and Dorothy L. Sayers
By Paul Skinner More than once, I’ve conferred upon friends an extract from Guy Davenport’s essay, ‘The Critic as Artist’, with the wonderful lines: ‘The next time you have a fresh reading…
Following in Ford’s Footsteps – Part 4
By Gillian Gustar And finally… Fordingbridge This is the last in a series of short blog articles based on a 2025 visit to the area of Wiltshire in which Ford set Ladies…
Following in Ford’s Footsteps – Part 3
By Gillian Gustar Finding traces of The Good Soldier My conviction that there is value in what I loosely call ‘field research’, by which I mean visiting locations with questions to follow…
Following in Ford’s Footsteps – Part 2
By Gillian Gustar The Village of Martin and W.H. Hudson In Part 1 of this series, I cited Ford’s comments on visiting Maurice Hewlett, the English historical novelist who he “liked very…
Following in Ford’s Footsteps – Part 1
By Gillian Gustar Whilst working towards my now completed PhD I was afforded the opportunity to contribute a regular column to Last Post. In the Spring 2019 edition I recounted the joys,…
Collected Letters – Volume One Update
The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford in six volumes, phase one of a new Oxford University Press edition, The Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford (General Editors Sara Haslam and Max Saunders) is well underway….
In Search of David Dow Harvey: Part 2
By Andrew Gustar In the first part of this article we followed David Dow Harvey up to the publication of Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: Bibliography of Works and Criticism, which remains a…
In Search of David Dow Harvey: Part 1
By Andrew Gustar Anybody studying Ford’s works will soon encounter David Dow Harvey’s Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: Bibliography of Works and Criticism (Princeton, 1962). In over 600 pages of typewritten text, Harvey…
In the lists: those desert island titles
By Paul Skinner Of her ‘desert island books’, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: ‘there are three titles that I would pick, because, for me, they are perhaps the ones that have most…
