The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Vol. 3 : October 1916-June 1921

Lawrence, David Herbert

ISBN 10: 0521231124 / ISBN 13: 9780521231121

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1984

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Title: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Vol. 3 : ...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st HARDCOVER.

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Synopsis:

This volume contains 942 letters written between October 1916 to June 1921. These letters show the frustration he experienced in finding a publisher for Women in Love in the wake of the Rainbow prosecution. Concurrently he began to write the essays which subsequently formed Studies in Classical American Literature, he also planned and wrote a school textbook, Movements in European History. There were important changes in his business affairs: the beginning of his association with the American publisher Thomas Seltzer and the change from the literary agent Pinker to Mountsier in New York and Curtis Brown in London. There is a particularly interesting correspondence with Compton Mackenzie, and the rupture of his old friendship with Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield. This period was a turning point, the beginning of his break with England and with Europe, before he made his journey to Ceylon and Australia en route for the USA. Published in two volumes.

Review:

'The splendid Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D. H. Lawrence is most welcome. It has all the virtues of a good modern scholarly edition of a writer's letters. Though one has already been familiar with many aspects of Lawrence's personality in his other writings, this comprehensive edition of his letters projects a cohesive self-portriat of the living artist.' English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature