A WEBSITE devoted exclusively to Lawrence in Australia is long overdue, and so to address this we have launched this new site to celebrate the enormous influence Lawrence, and his 8th major novel, Kangaroo, has had on Australian artists, writers and musicians – as well as to showcase important new research which reveals hitherto unknown aspects of Lawrence and his writing.
This new site incorporates the previous site of the D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia, formed in 1992. See www.dhlawrencesocietyaustralia.com.au.
The DHLSA was formed following our successful campaign to preserve Lawrence’s “cottage by the sea” (“Wyewurk”) in Thirroul, south of Sydney where he wrote Kangaroo.
Our new site provides links to every edition of our regular journal, Rananim, which contain a great deal of original research about Lawrence’s time in Australia. The new site also contains many photographs depicting Lawrence in Australia, the people he met and places he visited.
The new site also takes a close look at the works by many of Australia’s leading artists who have been inspired by Lawrence’s time in Australia (see in particular Garry Shead’s collection of internationally-renowned Lawrence images and Sidney’s Nolan’s poignant series of paintings).
Another major feature of the new website - and perhaps its most significant new component - is its link to our President Robert Darroch's most-recent book on Lawrence’s 99 days in Australia.
Entitled THE HORRIBLE PAWS, and subtitled DH Lawrence’s Australian Nightmare, this book (click HERE for a free, read-only, version) |
A printed version of the book (which was published in 2019 by The Svengali Press and ETT Publishing, Sydney) is available at amazon.com and in Print-on-Demand format.
Also available via the site is Robert Darroch’s timely (Kangaroo came out of US-copyright on January 1, 2019) and newly revised-and-annotated Australian edition of Kangaroo – which, to cite Lawrence’s bibliographer, the late Dr Warren Roberts’ words - comprises for the first time "the text he really wanted”. An indication of the multitude of relevant Lawrence-in-Australia material currently now available is reflected in the Links Index on this opening page of our new website.
We do not claim that this website is the last word on the subject of Lawrence in Australia, but we do hope that its scope and detail will fill a significant void in international Lawrence knowledge, and advance interest in Kangaroo and DH Lawrence literature and biography more generally.
It is envisaged that our new DH Lawrence in Australia site will be "open-ended” and will grow and expand as new information and research progress.
(THE HORRIBLE PAWS is by no means the end of the story of Lawrence’s time in Australia, and the book he wrote there, Kangaroo. The research is very much ongoing.)
If you would like to comment on anything in this site, or contribute additional material to it, please CONTACT us via this link.
And you are very welcome to join the DHLSA. Membership is free. All you need do is click HERE to join.
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