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Indeed it's now somewhat hard to imagine how Ford Madox Brown's self-regardingly Romantic colleagues were seen as decadent rebels and conscientious social realists.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

The novelist Ford Madox Ford praised the perfection of Hemingway's pure, skeptical and stoical style by observing, "his pages have the effect of a brook-bottom into which you look down through the flowing water."

Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011

The years since the publication of "The Waste Land" are labeled "post-Waste," the novelist Ford Madox Hueffer is dubbed "Huffer" and the Sitwell family—all three literary associates in London—goes by "S—well."

Notes From King Bolo Abigail Deutsch 2011

Kim Stanley Robinson's assertion that "A good new novel about the first world war, for instance, is still not going to tell us more than Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford" is just as mindlessly dismissive as saying, "a good new book about spaceships is not going to tell us more than Brian Aldiss's Non Stop."

Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win Lou Anders 2009

Completed in 1848, the Palm House was a big influence on Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace.020-8332 5655Completed in 1877, this grand building cost the best part of a £1m and still looks a million dollars, with its sandstone facade and lavish trimmings, which include murals by Ford Madox Brown.

Victorian and Edwardian buildings: examples from the era 2011

Ford Madox Ford compared Hemingway's early style to seeing white pebbles on the bed of a clear stream.

The Slow Crack-Up Allan Massie 2011

Tinker Tailor… (cold war nostalgia); the latest episodes of Downton Abbey (Great War nostalgia); the BBC's forthcoming adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, Parade's End (ditto); and the "Great" (Britain) campaign just launched by the prime minister in New York suggest a society apparently fixated on the stories and images of past glory.

Is our culture too much in thrall to the past? 2011

Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer is at Manchester art gallery from 24 September to 29 January.

Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite radical who shocked the Victorians 2011

Manchester Art Gallery will on Saturday open the first major Ford Madox Brown exhibition in nearly half a century, bringing together 140 works which cast the artist in a fresh light.

Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite radical who shocked the Victorians 2011

Based on the series of novels from Ford Madox Ford, the miniseries follows the story of a conservative English aristocrat (Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock) who finds himself in a love triangle with his wife (Rebecca Hall) and a young suffragette.

HBO Orders World War I Miniseries Parade's End 2011