Following in Ford’s Footsteps – part 1
By Gillian Gustar Whilst working towards my now completed PhD I was afforded the opportunity to contribute a regular column to Last Post. In the Spring 2019 edition I recounted the joys,…
James Baldwin’s “Good Soldier”
A significant copy of Ford’s The Good Soldier has appeared on the market, offering a tangible link between Ford and James Baldwin (1924–1987), one of the 20th century’s most influential American voices:…
George Wickes
We were sorry to learn, somewhat belatedly, of the death of Society member George Wickes, who passed away last October at the age of 102. A longtime professor at the University of…
Alliance of Literary Societies Newsletter
We have just received the Spring 2026 newsletter from the Alliance of Literary Societies, the umbrella organisation for literary societies and groups in the UK. It has over 100 member societies, including…
Collected Letters – Volume One Update
The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford in six volumes, phase one of a new Oxford University Press edition, The Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford (General Editors Sara Haslam and Max Saunders) is well underway….
Recommended Reading
We were delighted to see Colm Tóibín’s recommendation in this weekend’s Guardian of The Good Soldier as a perfect Christmas gift. We would, of course, agree with this choice: The Good Soldier…
The Lady Painter and Her Conjugal Yoke
A few weeks ago we announced forthcoming exhibitions of works by Janice Biala at Frieze Masters in London and at Galerie Pavec in Paris. Society members might be interested in this article…
Ford’s Cycles of Literary History
A new article by Seamus O’Malley, “One of Those Stupendous Mornings of Human Thought”: Ford’s Cycles of Literary History, has just been published online in the journal Anglo Saxonica. The article discusses…
Ford’s Letters, Life Writing, and Editing for a New Era
Society members might be interested in an article “Ford Madox Ford’s Letters, Life Writing, and Editing for a New Era” by Max Saunders and Sara Haslam, which has just been published online…
In Search of David Dow Harvey: Part 2
By Andrew Gustar In the first part of this article we followed David Dow Harvey up to the publication of Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: Bibliography of Works and Criticism, which remains a…
