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“... FordMadox Ford has been lucky in his admirers, if ‘luck’ is the word. It is no small thing to have inspired two such magnificent poems as Lowell’s ‘FordMadox Ford’ and William Carlos Williams’s ‘To FordMadox Ford in Heaven ...”

“... In 1915, FordMadox Hueffer became FordMadox Ford – by deed poll. Around the same time, at the age of 41, he enlisted for active service in the British Army: ‘I have never felt such an entire peace of mind as I have felt since I wore the King’s uniform ...”

“... One day in 1914, FordMadox Ford, then 40 years old and feeling it, found himself for a while in the custody of the youthful Percy Wyndham Lewis, a writer whose work had appeared in Ford’s magazine, the English Review, and who was about to launch a magazine of his own, the rather more intemperate Blast ...”

“... Attitudes to FordMadox Ford (né Hueffer) vary; some think he wrote some very good novels, and some do not; some aren’t bothered by his lies, and some are. And while some find his personal conduct endearing others demur ...”

“... FordMadox Ford, an appealingly talented and gossipy subject, has naturally attracted biographers. In 1971 Arthur Mizener’s The Saddest Story seemed adequately exhaustive, but now Max Saunders comes along with two vast volumes, even more thorough and more than doubling the page count ...”

“... certainly lots of unpublished letters, including a hundred-odd to Galsworthy, the same quantity to FordMadox Ford, ‘several dozen’ to Thomas Wise, an unspecified but obviously vast number to the agent Pinker, and so on. Moreover, the core ...”

“... refinement, one might have the story told by somebody unaware of its larger plot, which is what FordMadox Ford arranged. Ford was a Catholic of sorts, but it may be that it ...”

“... are exotic industry, autobiographical fluency and, to adapt what somebody once said about FordMadox Ford, a desire to write well so strong that it shows. According to his own listing, this is James’s 24th book. So at 50, despite his ...”

“... take the edge off their spaciousness. In July 1904, Olive Garnett spent ten days in Salisbury with FordMadox Ford and his wife, Elsie, at Elsie’s request; Ford, it ...”

“... Lindbergh baby. Among the three hundred-odd reporters present, besides Mencken, were Damon Runyon, FordMadox Ford, Edna Ferber, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Walter Winchell and Joseph Alsop, who was required to write no less than ten ...”

“... when he joins a government computer project. Meanwhile he continues his work on a thesis about FordMadox Ford, who disappoints him – five good novels and a heap of trash. His main interest remains literary, however, and he chooses as his ...”

“... Chelsea Herbert? Lloriston Grant? Caroline Blackwood and Robert Lowell have a conversation about FordMadox Ford? (Well, all right, but what’s it doing among ‘Traveller’s Tales’?)Chelsea Herbert is real too, and writes the best piece in ...”

“... into a tight traditional scheme of rhymes or half-rhymes. Here, for example, is his tribute to FordMadox Ford (to whom Lowell also has a sonnet): possibly thrice we glimpsed –                              more ...”

“... When FordMadox Ford published No More Parades, the second of the four novels that make up Parade’s End, in 1925, he was likened to Proust and Joyce. Three years later the final instalment, Last Post, was the biggest commercial success of his career ...”

“... hurriedly for Paris, where he was eventually arrested and imprisoned. Meanwhile Jean took up with FordMadox Ford, who encouraged and supervised her urge to become a writer. Stella Benson, ...”