author
Douglas Morey Ford
1851–1916
A Victorian-era lawyer who wrote fiction on the side, he left behind early novels and a pair of striking speculative tales that imagine political unrest, invasion, and social upheaval. His work offers a vivid glimpse of late-19th- and early-20th-century anxieties.
2 Audiobooks
The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman, A.D. 1940
by Douglas Morey Ford
A time of terror : the story of a great revenge (A.D., 1910)
by Douglas Morey Ford
About the author
Douglas Morey Ford was an English lawyer and novelist, born in Portsmouth in 1851. Sources agree that he followed his father, solicitor Richard William Ford, into the legal profession, while writing fiction in his spare time.
In the 1870s he published novels including Old as the Hills (1871) and Kate Savage (1873). He is now best remembered for later speculative fiction, especially A Time of Terror (1906) and The Raid of Dover (1910), books noted for their dramatic visions of anarchist violence, invasion, disaster, and social change.
Ford died at Chepstow on May 12, 1916. Although he is not a household name today, his fiction still attracts readers interested in Victorian popular literature and early speculative writing.