The Ford Madox Ford Society’s current major projects are working on publication of Ford’s complete collected letters, most of which have never been published, and completing scholarly editions of his complete works for Oxford University Press. This page contains the latest news on these projects.
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 an enthusiastic response to the call for papers. The packed schedule covers a wide range of topics, and in…
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Deciphering Ford’s Handwriting with AI
By Seamus O’Malley The novelist of epistemological crisis would have had something to say about Artificial Intelligence. In The Good Soldier Dowell asks: “If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six m…
Read MoreFord Madox (Hueffer) Ford letters sought!
The editors of the multi-volume Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford for Oxford University Press would be glad to hear from anyone holding letters from (or to) Ford, or about him, or who is aware of the whereabouts of any such letters. Any relevant information will be gratefully received and ac…
Read MoreAnnouncing a new project! The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford, in 6 volumes.
Ford was a superb letter-writer, and yet the vast majority of his c.3,000 known letters remains unavailable in published versions. The Society is delighted to announce a new project to address this significant gap in twentieth-century literary scholarship. Its General Editors are Sara Haslam and Max…
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