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 > ---------- > From: max saunders[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 4:40 PM > To: Zilboorg, Prof. C.C. ; Zamir, Shamoon; Woolford, John; Womack, Ken; > Wilson, Keith; Wiesenfarth, Joe; Wiesenfarth, Adam; West, Robert; Wegener, > Fred; Troy, Michele; Trotter, David; Thirlwell, Angela; Tate, Trudi; > Suranyi, Agnes; Stomberg, Camilla; Stokes, John; Stevenson, Randall; > Steiner, Wendy; Staley, Thomas F.; Spence, Ros; Smalec, Theresa; Simmons, > Allan; Saunders, Max; Risse, Marielle; Read, Richard; Rawlings, Peter; > Radell, Karen; Quinn, Patrick; Potter, Jane; Porter, John; Pines, Davida; > Pesman, Ros; Perosa, Sergio; Peel, Robin; Patterson, Ian; Patey, Caroline; > Normie, Gerald; Moore, Gene M. ; Michelucci, Stefania; McDonough, Robert > E. ; McCarthy, Jeff; Matz, Jessie; Materer, Timothy; Marshall, Alan; > Mannes-Abbott, Guy; Makin, Peter (2nd address); Makin, Peter; Makin, John; > Lemarchal, Dominique; Leckie, Barbara; Lasner, Mark Samuels; Langenfeld, > Bob; Lamberti, Elena; Knottenbelt, E M; Kenner, Hugh; Kelly, Lionel; > Kaplan, Carola M. ; Jones, Susan; Horne, Phil; Haslam, Sara; Harding, > Jason; Hampson, Robert; Groth, Brian; Green, Robert; Grabes, Herbert; > Glover, David; Gilbert, Geoff; Fortunati, Vita; Firchow, Peter; Ellis, > David; Dutta-Gupta, Indrani; Dunn, Bill; Delany, Paul; Davies, Laurence J. > ; Daniel, Jamie Owen; Cook, Cornelia; Connor, Steve; Cone-Miller, Emily; > Colombino, Laura; Clark, Paul; Cianci, Gianni; Christensen, Peter ; > Cheyette, Brian; Chantler, Ashley; Caserio, Robert L.; Carabine, Keith; > Calderaro, Michela; Byatt, A S; Bush, Ron; Bush, Clive; Brown, Nicholas; > Booth, Howard; Balaam, Peter J. ; Bacigalupo, Massimo; Bachner, Sally; > Baccolini, Rafaella; Ashton, Jennifer; Armstrong, Paul B. ; Alldritt, > Keith > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Ford Madox Ford Newsletter > > > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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: > [log in to unmask] > > > 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: > [log in to unmask] > Enquiries about registration to: Dr Keith Carabine, School of English, > Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, > U.K. > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------- > max saunders > [log in to unmask] > >