Douglas Morey Ford

Born in Portsmouth in 1851, Douglas Morey Ford was an English solicitor who wrote fiction alongside his legal work. He followed his father into the law, but he is now chiefly remembered for the novels and stories he produced in his spare time.

Ford’s reputation rests especially on his late speculative fiction. A Time of Terror imagined anarchist attacks on the British government, while The Raid of Dover offered a provocative future vision of Britain under female rule. Those books place him among the lesser-known writers who used adventure and fantasy to test the fears and ideas of Edwardian Britain.

He died on May 12, 1916. Today, his work attracts readers interested in overlooked invasion stories, early dystopian fiction, and the stranger edges of turn-of-the-century popular literature.