“... dressed as a clergyman to perform bogus weddings and was known as the ‘Bishop of Hell’. From FordMadox Ford’s The Soul of London, Ackroyd quotes a description of an inveterate urbanite sighing on his deathbed for one last sight and smell of ...”

“... themselves out of the political arena, and were therefore entirely uninterested in him. FordMadox Brown’s sentimental portrait of Fawcett, shielded against his disability by a devoted wife, appears on the cover of the book and leads one to expect the worst. Yet the cover is ...”

“... he taught at Oxford and is the Spanish translator of Conrad, Stevenson, Sterne and others. If FordMadox Ford’s The Good Soldier is the best French novel in the English language, Marías’s works must be strong contenders for the title of ...”

“... painting with the demands of miniature painting – that only the dedicated would wish to copy it. FordMadox Brown used it in Christ Washing Peter’s Feet: ‘painted in four months,’ he tells us, ‘the flesh painted on wet white at Millais’s lying instigation; Roberson’s ...”

“... he wrote to her again, asking if Mussolini would write an essay for the Transatlantic Review, FordMadox Ford’s new literary journal: Dear Nancy:   CAN you get a few choice words from Muss. exclusively for the Transatlantic, one or two ...”

“... of elderly camp. ‘The Retired Postal Clerk’ opens with de haut en bas mimicry reminiscent of FordMadox Ford’s attempts to enter the minds of sergeant-majors. It ends with a throb of sentimental patness: And those last months when she was ...”

“... Hall and its architect, Alfred Waterhouse, earn four pages in a thin allowance of illustrations. FordMadox Brown’s wonderful cycle of history paintings there gives Hunt his jumping-off point for expounding Manchester’s sense of its own worth – just as the Victorians no doubt ...”

“... much more nearly to that of literary criticism. Her comments on Arnold Bennett’s These Twain and FordMadox Ford’s The Good Soldier acknowledge the presence of a medium as well as a message. There can be little doubt, however, that she enjoyed ...”

“... anything as simple as a raising of standards in historical fiction but a shift in the definitions. FordMadox Ford’s Fifth Queen novels, for instance, weren’t expected to withstand scrutiny in the way that Philippa Gregory’s books claim for ...”

“... of fact in Wolf Hall would be more damaging than wall-to-wall solecisms in a piece of work like FordMadox Ford’s Fifth Queen trilogy, where the approach is impressionistic. The same distinction carries over into modernist novels that are no ...”

“... she was determined to maintain Cecil’s brisk, persecutory line. One of her 1916 articles smeared FordMadox Hueffer as a Jew who wrote unpatriotic books. Hueffer was Catholic and had been gassed while on active service in France, but no matter. Another article attacked Whitechapel Jews ...”

“... Edwardian lady all her life: dying in the Fifties, she still dressed as she had in 1910. Look at FordMadox Brown’s Work: only the middle and upper classes are dressed in a contemporary way; the workmen, the flower-seller and the poorer characters are dressed in what comes to hand ...”

“... London. Charles Deschamps, who sold Henry Hill his pictures, was a patron and friend of Rossetti, FordMadox Brown and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and later of Whistler. Monet came to London to avoid the Franco-Prussian War, Pissarro to avoid political persecution; both painted here. There were ...”