A Day on the Town with Elizabeth von Arnim
The Elizabeth von Arnim Society is hosting a conference this Friday 11 July, 2025 – both in person in New York City, and streaming online. The day will include the launch of…
Ford’s Spurious Sister
By Andrew Gustar Ford Madox Ford has a somewhat complicated family tree, as illustrated by the trees of his paternal and maternal sides in Max Saunders’ Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life,…
Ford, Conrad, Greenland and Trump
We were intrigued to read this article by Aaron Rosenberg in Tribune, drawing parallels between Ford and Conrad’s 1901 science fiction novel The Inheritors, and the recent controversy over Donald Trump’s statements…
A barney with Barnes
By Paul Skinner In the London Review of Books (8 May 2025), Julian Barnes’ notice of Blake Gopnik’s book, The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream (Ecco) includes the observation that ‘you…
Stella Bowen: Dangerously Modern
Stella Bowen has been featured in this article in Australia’s In Daily, as one of 50 artists celebrated in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s new exhibition Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in…
Finding Helena
by Sara Haslam Ever wondered what Ford scholars get up to in their spare time? Many of them have written on Ford’s contemporaries, and this 3rd May, we republish a post by Sara…
The Chronicler of Unhappiness
“With this new book, our leading Ford Madox Ford scholar distills a lifetime of close reading and study into two hundred pages.” Congratulations to Max Saunders for this positive review by Michael…
New Open Access IFMFS Articles Each Month
Each month, we make two sample chapters from the International Ford Madox Ford Studies available to download for free from this page. The chapters are free for one month only, and are…
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…
Alliance of Literary Societies Event: Writing on Their Stomachs
Writing on Their Stomachs – A Literary Feast Online Event: April 10th 2025 The Alliance of Literary Societies invites you to a mouth-watering Zoom event celebrating the connection between authors and food,…
