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…
Biala at Frieze Masters and Galerie Pavec
Jason Andrew, Director of the Estate of Janice Biala, has been in touch to share two opportunities to see the paintings of Biala in London (October 15-19) and Paris (October 21-December 20)….
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…
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…
Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World
Ford’s lover Jean Rhys is currently being celebrated in an exhibition at The Michael Werner Gallery in London entitled Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, which “traces Rhys’ biography, as well…
Weird Modernisms Conference: July 2026
We are thrilled to share the Call for Papers for next year’s Modernist Studies Association conference, which will be held in coordination with the British Association for Modernist Studies in Loughborough, UK,…
Patrick Hemingway dies aged 97
Stephen Rogers has been in touch to inform us of the news that Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s second child, died on 2nd September at the age of 97. Ford not only knew his…
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…
Crazy Kids and their Parisian Journal
We enjoyed this article by Nick Ripatrazone in the Literary Hub about the short-lived but influential magazine the transatlantic review, set up by Ford in Paris in 1924, and the increasingly influential…
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…
