The Ford Madox Ford Society in association with the Authors' Club and sponsored by the Open University

The novelist Ford Madox Ford joined the Authors’ Club in 1908, under his then name Ford Madox Hueffer. Best known for his 1915 masterpiece The Good Soldier, he has received a significant revival in recent years, including a critical edition of his World War I tetralogy Parade’s End, which was also dramatised for television by Tom Stoppard in 2012. In addition to his own writing, Ford was an indefatigable literary editor who helped to launch the careers of Jean Rhys and Ernest Hemingway, among others

The Authors’ Club is therefore delighted to be hosting the launch of a new journal dedicated to his life and work, published by the Ford Madox Ford Society in association with the Open University. Last Post: A Literary Journal aims to provide a Fordian meeting-place for conversation, comment and criticism, with informal pieces beside scholarly essays and creative non-fiction, whether concerned with expatriate lives in Paris, women’s rights, Sussex smallholding or Edwardian politics.

The speakers will be:

Sara Haslam, Chair, Ford Madox Ford Society; Senior Lecturer in English, Open University

Max Saunders, former Chair, Ford Madox Ford Society; Professor of English and Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute, King’s College London

Paul Skinner, general editor, Last Post

Delia da Sousa Correa, Senior Lecturer in Literature, Open University; series editor, Katherine Mansfield Studies

The Ford Madox Ford Society was founded in 1997, under the chairmanship of Max Saunders, author of a major two-volume critical biography of Ford. After ten years, Max was succeeded by Sara Haslam, the current chair. The Society has held annual conferences since 1999 both in this country and abroad, published 15 volumes of essays, and has been a primary force behind a widening familiarity with Ford’s life and work.

Drinks will be provided. The event is free, but please register via Eventbrite as places are limited.