In 1924 Lawrence and Frieda went back to New Mexico and in exchange for the manuscript of Sons & Lovers they acquired the Kiowa Ranch from Mabel. The manuscript was estimated (by Frieda) to be worth about $50,000 at the time. The couple were not alone on their travels however. They were accompanied this time […]
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Their stay in Taos was fairly brief, much shorter than I would have understood from other reading. In fact from the time they arrived there in September 1922 until the time they fell out with Mabel only a brief couple of months passed. It became clear to them that there was a price to pay […]
Lawrence and Frieda spent time in Italy, at the Fontana Vecchia, a villa which they loved and returned to. It seems that they lived a very itinerant lifestyle. They grew to hate England, particularly when they were in Cornwall towards the end of the war and were asked to leave by the police, who thought […]
I love libraries. I like the smell of the books. I like the idea that there is so much stuff in them bursting to get out. I like the idea that I may know more when I come out than when I go in. My mother tells anyone who will listen to her that I […]
You will no doubt have missed me. I have been a little busy finishing off a dissertation – or maybe it finished me off! We will now find out if I have any writing skills left at all. I am about to embark upon a voyage of discovery about D H Lawrence. I traipsed up […]
