Sara Haslam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University. She studied at the University of Liverpool, and King’s College London, and was a founder member of the Ford Madox Ford Society, of which she is currently Chair. She is author of Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War (Manchester University Press, 2002) and Life Writing (Routledge, 2009, with Derek Neale), and editor of Ford’s The Good Soldier (Wordsworth, 2010) and England and the English (Carcanet, 2003) as well as Ford Madox Ford and the City, the fourth volume of International Ford Madox Ford Studies (2005). She has published essays on the literature of the First World War, on Modernism, and on Ford, Thomas Hardy, the Brontës and Henry James.