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Fight the Good Fight. D.H. Lawrence as Culture Warrior. Talk to the D.H. Lawrence Society. 8 January 2025 Chris Nottingham
Talk to the D.H. Lawrence Society 8 January 2025 Chris Nottingham I’d like to start by thanking Brenda for the invitation to present this paper. It’s now more than 10 years since Steve and I published ‘Heartlands’ and discussed our ideas at meetings of the Society. I note with great…
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“Lawrence’s Muse” - Scarthin Books 23/02/24
Over the past few years, either by accident or design, we’ve done a fair bit of following in Lawrence’s footsteps: through the streets of Eastwood and Taormina, the meadows around Greasley Church and, most recently, the footpaths of the Amalfi Coast. What a beautiful experience that was last Summer when…
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Locating Lawrence: June 1922
James Walker I love D.H. Lawrence for his letters and for living such an exciting life and so I’ve started a series on YouTube called Locating Lawrence. Each month I post a visual essay that documents his life, one century on. I hope that in doing this, it will draw…
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‘Sun’
Our fifth item from the Lawrence collection at The Manuscripts and Special Collections Department, Nottingham University is two photographs of the front cover, and frontispiece drawn by Lawrence, for a rare edition of his short story ‘Sun’, published by Harry and Caresse Crosby’s Black Sun Press in 1928. Listed in…
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D.H. Lawrence at Haywoods, The Nottingham Lace Market by Stanley Chapman
So much has been written about the early life of D.H. Lawrence that it must be easy to suppose that there is nothing else to say. There is however one short period that has been neglected. When Lawrence left Nottingham High School in July 1901 he secured work as a…