Mes Chers Poundistes,
 
     I thought this might be of interest to you all...FMF was a Modernist,
and great friend and supporter of EP, after all!
 
                        Cheers
 
                   John Makin, Nottingham Trent University
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> Subject:      Ford Madox Ford Newsletter
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>
> What follows is -- or should be -- an electronic version of the
> latest Ford Newsletter. If you have any problems reading it,
> and/or would like a paper copy, please let me know.
>
> Max Saunders
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> FORD MADOX FORD SOCIETY: NEWSLETTER No. 3
>
> Honorary Members: Bernard Bergonzi, Janice Biala, Malcolm Bradbury, A. S.
> Byatt, Samuel Hynes, Alan Judd, Sir Frank Kermode, John Lamb, Sergio
> Perosa, Ruth Rendell, Michael Schmidt, The Hon. Oliver Soskice, John
> Sutherland, Tony Tanner.
> Executive Committee: Chair: Max Saunders Treasurer: Sara Haslam Secretary:
> Jenny Plastow
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> The Society continues to grow. There are now nearly 80 members. Ten
> countries are represented: testimony, perhaps, to Ford's vision of a
> 'Republic of Letters'. Plans for 1999 include the first Ford Madox Ford
> Lecture, and two major conferences, one in Germany and one in England.
> Details of all these can be found in this newsletter. We need to continue
> to attract members; particularly in those countries where much research
> remains to be done, but where Ford's profile is still curiously low:
> France and Germany. If you know, or know of, any writers, scholars, or
> translators who might be interested in Ford and the Society, please tell
> the Chairman or the Treasurer.
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> RECENT ACTIVITIES BY THE SOCIETY
>
> In June 1998 a small gathering met at the Globe Restaurant in Henley to
> mark the 59th anniversary of Ford's death. The restaurant, managed by the
> husband of one of the Society's members, specialises in traditional French
> cuisine. The lunch was excellent, and splendidly Fordian, with no trace of
> nouvelle or minceur. Afterwards we listened to Ford's broadcast about
> Edward VIII. Many thanks to the Abdallas for their hospitality.
>
> The Society was invited to stage a special Ford panel during the
> Twenty-Fourth Annual International Conference on Joseph Conrad, held in
> London from 2-4 July 1998. The Ford panel consisted of papers from Barbara
> Leckie (Carleton University, Ottawa) on 'Case Work: Divorce Court
> Journalism and Ford's The Good Soldier'; and from Marielle Risse (American
> University of Sharjah, U.A.E.) on modernism and postmodernism in The Good
> Soldier, and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. The session concluded
> with a discussion of Ford's memoir of Conrad, led by Sara Haslam and Max
> Saunders. Member of the Ford Society present were very grateful to the
> Joseph Conrad Society (United Kingdom) for the invitation, and felt that
> the friendliness and co-operation augured well for the July 1999
> Canterbury conference.
>
> FORD NEWS
> Two of Ford's works appeared in the list of 'One hundred best books'
> compiled for the New York Modern Library publishing company. The Good
> Soldier at 30, and Parade's End at 57. The judges were mainly American
> writers. Joyce scooped first and third places with Ulysses and Portrait of
> the Artist as a Young Man. But then Ulysses also topped the Independent's
> list of the worst 100 books of the century. Fordians will have to decide
> whether they are relieved or worried their man did not figure in that one.
> (Sources: Guardian, 21 July, 1998, p. 3; Independent, 24 July 1998; Friday
> Review, p. 1.)
>
> Jeff McCarthy's Ford Web Page now has a new addresses:
> http://www.wcslc.edu/pers_pages/j-mccart/ford_page
> [please note that this new address includes underscores]
> Renewals of subscriptions
> It was decided in our first year that members who joined before the
> Society's programme of activities began would not be charged for
> membership before January 1998. Thus subscriptions will be due for renewal
> by the AGM for those of you who joined before, or during, our January
> event last year. It would be a great help if you could send renewal
> cheques to the Treasurer before 9 January, please:
> Dr Sara Haslam, English Department, University College Chester, Parkgate
> Road, Chester CH1 4BJ.        Tel: 01244 373192       E-mail:
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>
> THE FIRST FORD MADOX FORD LECTURE:
> 'Reformations: Ford Madox Ford,
> Soldiers, and Transubstantiation'
> Professor Martin Stannard
> Saturday 9th January 1999: time: 4.00 p.m.
> The Centre for English Studies (room 329-30)
> Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1.
>
> Admission Free
>
> The Society is very pleased to announce the first Ford Madox Ford Lecture,
> to be given by Professor Martin Stannard, on Saturday 9th January 1999.
> The lecture, on 'Reformations: Ford Madox Ford, Soldiers, and
> Transubstantiation', will take place at the Centre for English Studies
> (room 329-30), Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1;
> time: 4.00 p.m.  Professor Stannard will be known to Fordians as the
> editor of the indispensable Norton edition of The Good Soldier. He is
> Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Leicester. The
> author of Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939 and Evelyn Waugh: No
> Abiding City, 1939-1966 (Dent, 1986 and 1992), he has also edited Evelyn
> Waugh: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1984). He is currently writing
> the authorised biography of Muriel Spark.
>
> Professor Stannard will be arguing that transubstantiation, or 'the
> changing of one substance into another', is an obsessive theme in Ford's
> writing: at the very heart of his literary impressionism and his cultural
> attitudes. To what extent did his Roman Catholicism impinge on his art?
> Does his work bear any relation to that of other twentieth-century
> Catholic novelists -- Waugh, Greene, and Spark? Why was the Reformation
> such an important event to Ford? And what does all this have to do with
> the Artists' Corps of the Queens' Westminsters? Professor Stannard will
> analyse The Good Soldier in the light of these questions.
>
> A copy of the flyer advertising the lecture is enclosed. Please copy,
> display, and distribute as appropriate!
>
> The lecture -- which it is hoped will be the first of an annual event --
> has been scheduled as soon as seemed feasible after the 125th anniversary
> of Ford's birth, which falls on 17 December 1998. The lecture will be
> preceded by the First Annual General Meeting of the Society, at 2.00, also
> in room 329-30 of the Senate House. The draft Agenda for this meeting is
> as follows:
> First Annual General Meeting
> 9 January 1999. 2.00p.m. The Centre for English Studies (room 329-30),
> Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1. Draft Agenda:
>
> Apologies for absence
>
> Chairman's Annual Report
>
> Treasurer's Annual Report.
>
> Proposed change to constitution.
> We have been advised by the Charity Commission than in order to be
> eligible for charitable status we need to amend our constitution. We shall
> vote on this at the AGM, but must give members at least three weeks notice
> of any proposed changes. At present the constitution defines our 'objects'
> as follows:
> 3.    Objects
> The objects of the Society ('the objects') shall be:
> a)    to promote knowledge of and interest in the works and life of Ford
> Madox Ford;
> b)    for such other charitable purposes as the Executive Committee shall
> decide from time to time.
> Apparently promoting knowledge is not charitable, whereas educating the
> public is. It is therefore proposed that object (a) be amended to read:
> 'To educate the public in and to promote research into the work and life
> of Ford Madox Ford'.
>
> Election to Executive Committee.
> At the A.G.M. we must elect a Chair, a Secretary, and a Treasurer; and
> between two and nine further members. Nominations (only of those who have
> agreed to stand!) to the secretary by 20 December, please: Ms Jenny
> Plastow, 16 Burnham Road, St Albans, HERTS, AL1 4QW.
>
> Administrative needs: to include: editor of Newsletter; conference
> organiser.
>
> Future planning (any volunteers to organise a conference in the U.S.A.?)
>
> Any Other Business
>
> The meeting will be followed by a meeting of the new Executive Committee,
> from 3.00 p.m.
>
> Carcanet Press and The Millennium Ford: Carcanet now have eight titles in
> print:
> The Rash Act, A History of Our Own Times, Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, The
> Ford Reader, The Good Soldier, Parade's End, The English Novel, and
> Selected Poems.
> Forthcoming in 1999: Return to Yesterday; and War Prose
> Further titles can be bought from America over the Internet. At
> http://www.amazon.com the Ford books not available in the UK include The
> Benefactor at $19.95, and several others.
>
>
> Modernism and the Individual Talent:
> Re-Canonizing Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)
> M|nster (Westphalia) 25-27 June 1999
> Announcement and final call for papers
> This promises to be a fully international gathering, with participants
> from Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. It is envisaged that
> there will be a concert-cum-reading on the evening of the 25th; papers and
> a translation workshop throughout the 26th, followed by a commemorative
> dinner; and a tour of relevant sites in M|nster on the 27th, followed by
> lunch and a second, M|nster-related reading. Abstracts (200 words) before
> 1 January 1999 to: Dr. Jvrg W. Rademacher, Inselbogen 52, D-48151,
> M|nster, Germany.
>
> Joint conference on Ford, Conrad, and James:
> Canterbury, Kent: 8-11 July 1999
> IMPORTANT: PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATES FOR THIS RESIDENTIAL
> CONFERENCE. The Conference will bring together the Joseph Conrad Society
> (U.K.), the Ford Society, and the Henry James Society of America. Papers
> are welcomed on the life and works of these three authors, either jointly
> or separately. A day tour of Conrad, James, and Ford houses in Kent is
> also planned. Please send abstracts (300 words) of any papers on Ford by 8
> January 1999 to:
> Dr Max Saunders, Department of English, King's College London, The Strand,
> London WC2R 2LS.      Tel: 0171 873 2342      E-mail:
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> Enquiries about registration to: Dr Keith Carabine, School of English,
> Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury CT2 7NZ,
> U.K.
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> Ford Madox Ford Annual?
> The possibility of publishing a scholarly annual is being explored.
> Initial responses from British publishers suggest that a
> publisher/distributor in the U.S.A. would need to be involved. Please send
> any suggestions to the editor of this issue, Max Saunders: address as
> above.
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