D.H . Lawrence's 99 Days in Australia

RANANIM

 

ARTICLES IN RANANIM ABOUT DHL IN AUSTRALIA

 

SINCE 1993, the year after the D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia was formed, we have produced regular issues of our journal, Rananim. Below is a selection of photos and articles from the Journal, written by Lawrence scholars and members of the D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia (DHLA). If you would like to join the Society, it is FREE, all you need to do is send your name and email address and we will keep you informed of forthcoming events. Click for our Contact form.

A FEW EXAMPLES OF RANANIM FRONT PAGES, FROM THE EARLY DAYS TO

WHEN WE WENT ONLINE IN 2001

The first issue of Rananim Vol. 3, No.2, June 1995

The first issue of Rananim, October 1993

Vol. 3, No.2, June 1995

Vol. 4, No.1, April 1996 rananim 3

Vol. 4, No.1, April 1996

Vol.6, No.1, June 1998

Vol 2, No. 2, June 1994 Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2001

Vol 2, No. 2, June 1994

Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2001

Vol. 14, No.1, December 2006 Vol. 15, No.1, 2007-2008

Vol. 14, No.1, December 2006

Vol. 15, No.1, 2007-2008

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Index of Rananim Issues

 

Issue Date

Article Title

Page Number

vol 1, no. 1, October 1993

The Wyewurk Saga Continues

(Committee formed to save bungalow where Lawrence stayed in Australia)

1

 

DHL Society of Australia Formed

1

 

Postcard from Frieda

2

 

By Steam Train to Thirroul

DHLSA Excursion in footsteps of Lawrence

3

 

Letters of Introduction

(But who did Lawrence know in Australia?)

4-9

 

The Man Who Did Live at Murdoch Street

(Bert Toy of The Bulletin)

8

 

Letters

10

 

Bits

11

 

Anniversary Lunch Sur L’herbe

12

     

vol 2, no. 1, February 1994

Launch on the Grass

Official launch of DHLSA

1

 

The Spirit of the Place

Exhibition of Garry Shead Kangaroo series

2

 

What Walter Knew

The Friend Connection – Andrew. Moore

3

 

By Steamship to Rananim

4

 

The Barber of Thirroul

Frieda Lawrence’s Strange Gift – R. Darroch

5

 

An Incident at the Café Royal

Katherine Mansfield seizes Lawrence’s s Amores - S. Darroch

10

 

A Literary House that has been Preserved

15

 

Was Willie Struthers My Uncle Jock?

My uncle knew D.H. Lawrence – Robert Douglass

16

 

Frank Hardy's Testimony

21

 

Bits

23

     

vol 2, no. 2, June 1994

By Steam Train to Wyewurk

Another DHLSA Excursion in footsteps of Lawrence

1

 

A Visitor from Japan (and England)

3

 

A Touch of Pasadena at Thirroul

4

 

Following the Footsteps of Lawrence

Where did he go?  Who did he meet?

8

 

The Evidence of the Rolls

16

 

Lawrence works in Australia – a Collection

17

 

Women in Love and Kangaroo

Literary Connections – Steve O’Connor

19

 

Trip to Sri Lanka

24

     

vol 2, no. 3, October 1994

Lawrence Seminar by the Sea

1

 

Pera Hera

3

 

An Affable AGM

3

 

The Mystery of the Old Dairy

Failed Hunt in Darlington W.A. for Lawrence plaque

4

 

Lawrence, Leavis and the Law

8

 

The Evidence of the Letters

Lawrence’s Introductions

12

 

New Lawrence Statue

14

 

Lawrence at Duntroon

20

 

Place of Spirit

22

 

ls Lawrence Dinki-Di?

24

     

vol 3, no. 1, February 1995

A Lively Third Year Ahead

1

 

“The Darroch Thesis” Put to Flight?

Overseas reviews question Darroch’s interpretation

3

 

The Long and Muddy Road to-Taos

Michael Lester visits the Lawrence ranch

5

 

Wyewurk Visitors’ Book (1934-49)

6

 

Kangaroo in Court

The battle for Wyewurk

10

 

CUP Kangaroo Review

12

 

Wobbly Source for Row in Town

Where Lawrence got his riot

14

     

vol 3, no. 2, June 1995

A Day Out on Sydney Harbour

DHLSA takes to the water

1

 

How Would Wyewurk?

3

 

The Spy Episode

The Aldington/Kershaw letters

5

 

Back of Burke

9

 

Andiano!

A guide to Lawrence’s travel writing

10

 

On the Lady Hopetoun (picture spread)

12

 

Lawrentian Places

15

 

A Literary Stouch

“Hrrumph” says Humphrey McQueen

16

 

A Battle of Tongues

Our readers have their say

19

     

vol 3, no. 3, November 1995

An August Gathering

Our DHLSA Conference at the Writers’ Centre

1

 

Lawrence Returns to the Haymarket

Our DHLSA AGM with the Kuo Min Tang

2

 

The Touch (poem by Peter Skrzynecki)

3

 

How Lawrence Inspired composer Peter Sculthorpe

3

 

Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush

Paul Eggert on Lawrence’s other Australian novel

4

 

An Unconsidered Trifle

Robert Darroch responds to A.D. Hope

7

 

How We Battled to Save Wyewurk

Sandra Darroch and the Wyewurk cartoon

10

 

On First Reading DHL

14

 

The Shead of Windsor

Garry Shead’s anti monarchist story

15

     

vol 4, no. 1, April 1996

SPECIAL POETRY ISSUE

 
 

Between the Covers (Christopher Pollnitz)

6

 

Poems by Various Contributors

10-16

 

It Was a Hot & Steamy Night (“Elephant”)

Robert Darroch on Lawrence in Ceylon

17

     

vol 4, no. 2-3, December 1996

From the Reticulous to the Sublime

The DHLSA takes a trip to Thirroul

1

 

Elvis at Our DHL Conference

A summary of the papers given at our Conference

3

 

Multiple Lawrences

5

 

Horror! Shock! Drama! (a spy in our midst)
Vice-president was an MI5 agent

6

 

How Many Oranges?

8

 

Benjamin Cooley – A Factitious Composite

10

 

A Hitherto Unidentified Lawrence Item

13

 

ln the Valley of the Roses

Robert Darroch in Germany on a hitherto unconsidered trifle

14

 

Excursion to Lodden Falls

Photos of our day where Lawrence picnicked

18

 

Pussy Jenkins and Her Circle

Lawrence’s Perth, WA, contact and her friends

20

 

Lawrence and the Marchbanks

23

 

Recent Theories of Travel Writing & DHL

29

 

The Digger Who Caught Lawrence's Eye

31

 

Strangers on a Train

Margaret Jones has a suspicious encounter

34

     

vol 5, no. 1, April 1997

Lawrence Seventy-five Years On

DHLSA marks important anniversary

1

 

An Invitation to "Lawrence's House"

My uncle knew D.H. Lawrence

3

 

The Other Tenant from Eastwood

5

 

What Elsie Knew

A voice from “The Garage”

7

 

Lady Chatterley’s Plover

8

 

A Memory of Lawrence from India

9

 

Mining Lawrence's Nomenclature

Where he got his names and characters

10

 

Wyewurk Seventy-five Years Ago

16

 

Lazarus Raises DHL Centre's Profile

17

 

Jolly Boating Weather (Yet Again)

DHLSA annual Harbour cruise

18

 

Lawrence and Comedy

20

 

Was Lawrence a Good Sport?

A surfer, but what else?

26

 

Republican or Monarchist?

30

 

Inky Stephensen's Lawrence Story

An Aussie at Oxford

33

 

A New Australian Novel of Thirroul

A powerful new Thirroul novel

35

     

vol 5, no. 2, September 1997

In Lawrence’s Footsteps

The DHLSA’s Northern Beaches excursion

1

 

Frieda in Taos

Geoffrey Dutton meets Mrs Lawrence

3

 

Squib, Not Cannon

An unidentified Lawrence item

5

 

The lnky Way

Lawrence and his paintings

12

 

What's in a Name?

Further Lawrence nomenclature

21

 

DHL and Humour

Funny, but not ha-ha

30

 

The Lawrence Ranch

33

     

vol 5, no. 3, December 1997

By Steam Train to Berry for our AGM

1

 

Why Did Lawrence Make the Connection?

Kangaroo and R.L. Stevenson

3

 

Poem: Stepping into the Same River Twice

Poem by Christopher Pollnitz

5

 

Sunday in New Mexico

DHLSA member visits Taos

6

 

A Ruse by Any Other Name

More about Lawrence’s nomenclature

10

 

Friendship and Freedom of Soul

In Lawrence’s Kangaroo

20

     

vol 6, no 1, June 1998

Lawrence Sites Under Threat

1

 

Carry on up the Lane Cove River

DHLSA aboard the Lady Hopetoun again

1

 

Keeping the Gamekeeper Game

Christopher Pollnitz on Lawrence biography

3

 

But he did have the World and Time

Questioning the provenance of Kangaroo

5

 

The Ferries of Sydney Harbour in 1922

7

 

A Ferry-eye view of old Sydney

10

 

Larboard Watch Ahoy!

DHLSA’s cruise to harbor backwaters

10

 

Manning Clark and DHL

The historian was a Lawrence fan

13

 

Death of Warren Roberts

14

     

vol 6, no. 2, October 1998

Welcome to the Age of Uncertainty

Robert Darroch ponders on Modernism

1

 

Near This Place Lawrence Stayed

A monument to Lawrence at Thirroul

3

 

Did Lawrence Sleep Here?

A case of mistaken identity

4

 

Was there an Ashton Link?

5

 

Take me to your Liedertafel

Sandra Darroch traces Lawrence’s Western Australian links

8

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Taos

A tongue-in-cheek report of the 1998 DHL Conference

15

 

Down in the Woods, Something Stirred

Lawrence& his thing about trees

26

 

The Roo who Came to Dinner

Garry Shead’s Lawrence picture show

31

 

Ranamin Website Mooted

32

     

vol 7, no. 1, December 1999

vol 8, no. 1, March 2000

We Are Alive and Twitching

DHLSA looks to the future

1

 

A Cruise into the Future

Another DHLSA Harbour cruise

3

 

Madly

Memories of Lawrence

4

 

DHL, Women's Ally

6

 

Footy Poem

8

 

Third Age Lawrence

A new way of studying Lawrence

9

 

Lawrence Book Reviews

11

 

DHL plaque Picture Spread

12

 

Editor gets Wet in Sicily

John Lacey in Italy

14

 

Dear Diary...

15

 

Kings School Letters

Letters quoting Lawrence in Kings School archive

16

 

Nothing to Sniff at

17

 

A Slip or a Tip?

27

 

Tea with Monty

DHLSA member recalls meeting Frieda’s son

28

 

Letter from London

40

     

vol 9, no. 1, March 2001

Welcome to our New DHL Website

Our new DHLSA website is now up

1

 

Our New President

John Lacey takes the reins

3

 

AGM Returns to its Roots

3

 

We've Come a Long Way

5

 

To Thirroul via Collaroy

DHLSA takes a ferry to see Wyewurk

12

 

Sailing to Thirroul

Poem by Christopher Pollnitz

13

 

Bert Gets a Stockings Blue

14

 

Wyewurk Papers

Fight to save Wyewurk papers

16

 

Mr Lawrence I Presume

18

 

Mr Lacey's Passage to India

19

 

Not the End of the Story

Robert Darroch questions the CUP ending of Kangaroo

21

 

Letter from Paul Eggert

“I give up.”

30

     

vol 10, no. 1, May 2002

A Thoroughly Thirroulean Time

DHLSA goes to Thirroul again

1

 

A Small Step

3

 

DHL Reserve

A dedicating delegation to the DHL Reserve at Thirroul

5

 

Troubadour at Thirroul

John Ruffels struts his stuff

6

 

Sea and Sydney

8

 

Our Trivial Pursuits

8

 

The Man Who Wasn’t There

George Augustine Taylor glides into view

9

 

Lady Hopetoun Album

Another Harbor cruise

16

 

Kandy Will Be Dandy

17

 

The Quest for “Ardnaree” 

We track down Lawrence’s Kandy bungalow in Ceylon

18

 

By Train to the City of Light

Our President remembers India

24

 

What If…

Lawrence had caught a different train

26

 

Blue, Blue, Blue

Why was Lawrence in love with blue?

29

 

We’re Not Alone

29

 

Did DHL Hear Red?

Did Lawrence have Synaesthesia?

31

     

vol 11, no. 1, March 2003

A Tale of Two Picnics

1

 

DHL Knew My Farther

4

 

Who Put a Comma In?

8

 

From Cagliari to Coalcliff

10

 

Lawrence & Lincoln Cathedral

13

 

Our Victorian Correspondent

14

 

Our Beijing Correspondent

15

 

A Shead Exhibition

16

 

A Wyewurk Romance

17

 

How DHL Fell on His Feet

18

 

Kangaroos at the Zoo

24

 

Lawrence & Nietzsche

26

 

Lawrence Into Fox

33

     

vol 12, no. 1, February 2004

So…Lawrence Doesn’t Matter?

Lawrence is still relevant

1

 

Lady Hopetoun Cruise

Send not to know for whom the boat tooted

3

 

About this Issue

5

 

Special Spirit of Lawrence Issue

A death in Thirroul

7-27

 

Saving Young Brett

Australian Lawrence artist Brett Whitely saved from drowning

10

 

A Toast to Jane Austen

We prove that Mellors is sexier than Darcy

15

 

The Boy from Gundagai

My inspiraton, my mentor, my guide – sculptor Tom Bass on Lawrence

18

 

Balls Head Snapshots

20

 

New Tricks Old Dog

Gerald Pollinger sends his regards

23

 

Sandon Point Developed

26

 

Victorian Jottings

28

 

Culture Shock

Thirroul wasn’t England

29

 

The Light Brigade

Andrew Moore with De Groote’s sword

30

 

Row in Parliament

John Lacey returns to India

32

 

Snakes & Adders

Angela Barker remembers Lawrence’s most famous poem

35

 

President’s Report

36

 

AGM

37

 

Lawrence Swansong

Wyewurk comes to the stage

38

     

vol 13, no. 1, August 2005

DHL, Jane Austen & the Trained Cormorant

Storytelling on train to Robertson

1

 

Where Are We Going? What Are We Doing?

A major new Lawrence biography

3

 

Our Anniversary

4

 

A Tale of Two Houses 

The houses that link Collaroy to Thirroul

5

 

“Hinnemoa” - and the Oatley Connection 

Collaroy house remembered

7

 

DH Lawrence in Brazil

Could Kangaroo become a string book?

10

 

A Cormorant Holmes? Why a Cormorant?

The winning Ranelagh entries

15

 

Back on Board the Lady Hopetoun

Yet another Harbour cruise

17

 

Looking for DHL Editions

20

 

The Great Debate: Sex and Sensibility

How we beat the Austen society

21

 

Jane Austen vs DHL: The Great Debate

The winning arguments

22

 

DHL in England and Europe

26

 

Lawrence and “Heidi”

Lawrence and the Melbourne art colony

30

 

The Enemies of Lawrence

31

 

Thirroul Arts Festival

33

     

vol 14, no. 1, November 2006

Highlights of this Issue

1

 

Marking our 13th Year

3

 

Lawrence & Zarathustra

The links between Kangaroo and Nietzsche

4

 

Lawrence and Dada

A new way of making sense ofKangaroo

7

 

All at Sea with DHL

“My mother sailed with DHL”

12

 

Was there a Jones Connection?

13

 

But Who WAS Jaz?

Another Lawrence shipmate

15

 

A Lawrentian Event

Picnic at Georges Heights

17

 

Out and About with Lawrence

18

 

DH Lawrence: Genius or Joke?

A talk by Peter Coleman

20

 

A Roo by Any Other Name

Robert Darroch reviews The Virgin and the Gypsy

24

 

A Sinister Theory

27

 

Tribute to Margaret Jones

28

 

Encounters with Bloomsbury

Sandra Jobson Darroch’s Bloomsbury Talk

30

 

President’s & Treasurer’s Reports

33

 

Two BBQs

34

     

vol 15, no. 1, 2007-2008

LAWRENCE & ART

 
 

Highlights of this Issue

1

 

Rananim Goes Virtual

Our first online Rananim issue

3

 

Lawrence Renaissance

It has been a good year for Lawrence

4

 

Margaret Jones Inaugural Lecture

Paul Delprat on Lawrence’s Art

5

 

Trees or Water?

Review of Robert Drewe Short Story

7

 

Stormy Weather

Our Damp Harbour Cruise

8

 

Lawrence in New Zealand

Sandra Jobson Darroch on Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield

10

 

Paul Delprat on Lawrence’s Art

12

 

Bert of All Trades

Not only could he write

14

 

Lawrence’s Paintings (picture spread)

16

 

If Lawrence Had Stuck to Painting

18

 

The White Stocking

Lawrence short story analysed

20

 

Our Rose Garden Picnic

26

 

Judit Shead

Tribute to artist Garry Shead’s late wife, Judit

27

 

Australian Journalist Interviews Lawrence!

28

 

President’s & Treasurer’s Reports

30

 

Bits & Letters

31

 

More Lawrence Paintings

32

 

About the Society

32

     

vol 15, no. 2, November 2008

Jacaranda Cruise

The DHLA voyages up the Lane Cover River in blossom

1

 

Lawrence and Gertler

Jonathan Long explores their relationship

1

     

vol 16, no. 1, January 2009

Our 16th Anniversary Botanic Gardens Picnic

1

 

DHLSA AGM

 
     

vol 16, no. 2, March 2009

By Tram to Narrabeen with DH Lawrence

DHLSA finds the tram that took Lawrence and Frieda from Manly to Narrabeen

1

     

vol 16, no. 3, April 2009

‘I’VE Never Left Lawrence” Says Composer Sculthirpe

Peter Sculthorpe reads from Kangaroo

1

     

vol 16, no. 4, September 2009

A Visit to the Studio of the Man Who Put Kangaroo on Canvas

A Visit to Garry Shead’s Studio

1

     

vol 17, no. 1, February 2010

Margaret Jones Memorial Lecture (& AGM)

Defending the Darroch Thesis

Prof. Andrew Moore gives a historian’s perspective

1

   

1

vol 17, no. 2, April 2010

The Ides of Lawrence Art Exhibition
An exhibition of works about Lawrence at the Union Club, Sydney

1

     

vol 17, no. 3, July 2010

A Visit to Taos

Society member Michael Lester visits Taos

1

 

Wyewurk for Sale

 
 

A Major Literary Discovery

Sandra Darroch discusses how Lawrence portrayed Katherine Mansfield not only inWomen in Lovebut also inThe Lost Girl

1

     

vol 18, no. 1, February 2011

Boz is Back in Oz (Unveiling of Statue)

Our Society attends the unveiling of a statue of Dickens in Sydney

1

     

vol 18, no. 2, July 2011

In the Footsteps of Lawrence

International DHL Conference in Sydney

1

 

The House at the End of the Road

Robert Whitelaw discovers the house Lawrence visited in Narrabeen

2-3

     

vol 19, no. 1, June 2012 

90th DHL Arrival Anniversary

(special Garry Shead drawing)

1

 

Geoff Dyer in Sydney

Sandra Darroch interviews Geoff Dyer, author of

Out of Sheer Rage – the search for Lawrence

1

 

President's Welcome: John Lacey

2

 

Literary Contest

3

 

Literary Contest Contributions: Rob Douglass; Sandra Darroch; Lindsay Foyle; Paul Delprat

3

 

Anniversary Photos

8

     

vol 19, no. 2, October 2012

Lawrence & Frieda on Location

Garry Shead makes a film about Lawrence andKangaroo

1

 

Lawrence’s Lost Girl Found in New York

Sandra Jobson (Darroch) on a New York connection with Lawrence

2

 

Katherine Mansfield: Lawrence’s Real Lost Girl

Sandra Darroch tells of her literary discovery

2

 

Roy Irons – The Architct of Wyewurk

8

 

The Witch a la Mode

Lawrence and Male behaviour

9

     

vol 20, no. 1, May-Jun 2013 

DHL Welcomes RLS to Litsocsyd

RL Stevenson in Sydney

1

 

AGM

 
     

vol 20, no. 2, October 2013

The Truth About Lawrence & Kangaroo

Launch of Robert Darroch’s online book about Lawrence &Kangaroo

1

     

vol 21, no. 1, June 2014

A Rose Garden 22nd Celebration

1

     

vol 21, no. 2, November 2014

Our New Media Venture (and film premiere)

Launch of Garry Shead’s DVD of his film on Lawrence & Kangaroo

1

 

How to Buy Garry’s Film

 
     

vol 22, no. 1, August 2015

What Lawrence Did at the Zoo

New Venue for our DHL Celebration

1

 

A Day at the Zoo

1

     

vol 23, no. 1, August 2016

Darroch Book Launch at the State Library

1

 

The Bulletin, DH Lawrence & Kangaroo<

Sydney Launch of Robert Darroch’s book DH Lawrence’s 99 Days in Australia Gala Bulletin Dinner at the Union Club

1

     

vol 24, no. 1, February 2017

The Svengali Press: Niche Publisher for Lawrence Books

Launch of a new publishing company specialising in Lawrence

1

 

In Search of Villa Fontana Vecchia

Michal & Jill Lester search for Lawrence’s Sicilian abode

1-3

     

vol 24, no. 2, September 2017

London & Sydney Launches of Garsington Revisited

1

 

Why Lawrence Visited Rose Cottage

2

 

DHLA Member Visits Brook Cottage

3

     

vol 24, no. 3, November 2017

Was Lawrence Gay?

The evidence of the red wooden heart

1

     
 

Latest Rananim Issue

 

vol 26, no. 1, February 2020

WE ARE OFF TO TAOS

1
 

SITUATING ECOFEMINISM IN LAWRENCE’S STORIES

2