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Literature
The Real ‘Young Russian’: in Conversation with the Daughter of Boris de Chroustchoff
This article was published in Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies Volume 7, No. 1, December 2024, pp. 287-98. It...
Call for Papers for conference on ‘The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century’
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University,...
D. H. Lawrence and: The Border-Line
Report of the Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Julianne Newmark The Border-Line Thursday...
D. H. Lawrence and: Volcanoes
Report of the Thirty-Eighth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Shirley Bricout Lawrence and Volcanoes ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Bolshevism
Report of the Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group John Pateman Lawrence and Bolshevism ...
The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham, and St Petersburg
The following article is the pre-edited version of a chapter in Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration edited by...
D. H. Lawrence and: Anaïs Nin
Report of the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Blake Matich An Unprofessional Lecture: Anaïs...
D. H. Lawrence and: the Road to Vence Part 2 1928-1930
Report of the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Robert Bullock The Rest of the Road to Vence:...
D. H. Lawrence and: Sardinian Ecology
Report of the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Terry Gifford Lawrence, Sardinia and Ecology...
D. H. Lawrence and: Richard Aldington
Report of the Thirty-Third Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Philip Chester Tit & Tat: A Tale of...
D. H. Lawrence and: Windows
Report of the Thirty-Second Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Tina Ferris Windows Imagery in D. H. Lawrence's...
D. H. Lawrence and: Geology
Report of the Thirty-First Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Shirley Bricout Rock Imagery in...
D. H. Lawrence and: Hampstead
Report of the Thirtieth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Catherine Brown A Walking Tour of Lawrence's...
D. H. Lawrence and: The Road to Vence Part I 1928-1929
Report of the Twenty-Ninth meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Robert Bullock The Road to Vence 1928-1929...
D. H. Lawrence and: Figurative Animals
Report of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Maria Trejling Flickering Figures:...
Childhood Viewed from Middle Age: A Comparison of Retrospection in Sebastian Faulks’s Engleby and Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
This paper was delivered at the 30th international scientific conference, ‘The Historical Past and the Present in...
D. H. Lawrence and: Whether or Not?
Report of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Jim Phelps ‘Whether or Not?’ ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Aaron’s Rod
Report of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Axel Englund A Musical Self? On...
D. H. Lawrence and: David
Report of the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group SHIRLEY BRICOUT WITH CATHERINE...
D. H. Lawrence and: the Young Russian
Report of the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group The real ‘Young Russian’: the daughter of...
D. H. Lawrence and: Pedagogy
Report of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Audra Belmore, Shirley Bricout,...
D. H. Lawrence and: Historiography
Report of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Michael Bell Lawrence and...
D. H. Lawrence and: Gaudier-Brzeska
Report of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Jane Costin The Sculptor and the Novelist...
D. H. Lawrence and: Patriarchs
Report of the Twentieth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Shirley Bricout D. H. Lawrence and...
D. H. Lawrence and: Genre
Report of the Nineteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Simonetta de Filippis Genre...
Response to Freya Johnston’s Review of ‘Burning Man’
The following short letter to Prospect magazine to Freya Johnston's review of Frances Wilson's 2021 biography of D. H....
D. H. Lawrence and: Musicals
Report of the Seventeenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Glyn Bailey and Colleagues Learning...
D. H. Lawrence and: Touch and Go
Report of the Fifteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group A Group Reading of Touch and Go ...
Veganism and Modernism
This post was written for the Vegan Society Researcher Network blog, where it may be found here. It appears...
When does ‘Women in Love’ take place?
I recently contributed to a thread on the literary blog of Russian translator and biographer Patrick Miles,...
D.H. Lawrence: Sex, Exile and Greatness
I was interviewed about D.H. Lawrence for a 48-minute Sky Arts documentary (with Odyssey Television) about D.H....
D. H. Lawrence and: Abruzzo
Report of the Thirteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Anthony Pacitto A Sense of Ancient Gods ...
Review of Judith Ruderman’s D.H. Lawrence Birthday Lecture September 12th 2020
‘A life of illness and resilience: Reflections on Lawrence’s letters in a time of pandemic’ Saturday...
The Book Launch of ‘The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts’ (2020)
Lawrencian sisters... co-editors Susan Reid and Catherine Brown INTRODUCTION On November 28th,...
D. H. Lawrence and: Rage
Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group The D. H. Lawrence Memory Theatre: James...
D. H. Lawrence and the Sense of Scale
The following paper was delivered to the DH Lawrence Society in Eastwood on 14th October 2020. ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Sardinia
Report of the Tenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Adam Lang Sea and Sardinia and the Spirit of...
D. H. Lawrence and: Film
Report of the Ninth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Catherine Brown Lawrence's Short Stories...
D. H. Lawrence and: Illness
Report of the Eighth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Catherine Brown Lawrence, Illness, and...
Novels that Shaped Our World, BBC2
I was interviewed about Charles Dickens, George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence for two of the three hour-long...
Le procès de lady Chatterley: Orgasme et lutte des classes dans un jardin anglais, ARTE
I was interviewed about Lady Chatterley's Lover for a one-hour ARTE French documentary about the novel's...
Tea with ‘Jessie Chambers’
The following account is by Eve Leadbeater, a friend of my parents and me, who once met D. H. Lawrence's...
Review of the International D. H. Lawrence Conference at the University of Nanterre April 2019
I was commissioned to write the following review of the 2019 D. H. Lawrence conference at the University...
D. H. Lawrence and: Locations
Report of the Sixth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Dudley Nichols Lawrencian Locations ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Belarus
Report of the Fifth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Marina Ragachevskaya Minsk State...
Review of ‘Mud and Stars’, a Russian Literary Travel Book by Sara Wheeler
MUD AND STARS: TRAVELS IN RUSSIA WITH PUSHKIN AND OTHER GENIUSES OF THE GOLDEN AGE Sara Wheeler....
Old and New Testament Ethics in Two Lloyd Webber Musicals
This article was written for thearticle.com. What follows is my pre-edited draft. The final article may be read...
Visiting Tolstoy for his 190th Birthday
I have just reviewed Mud and Stars: Travels In Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses Of The Golden Age by Sara...
DH Lawrence and the Anticipation of a Vegan World
The following paper was given at the 33rd annual international DH Lawrence conference held at the University of...
Literary Bad Sex
The following article was commissioned by IAI (Institute of Arts and Ideas), and published March 15th 2019; the...
Review of Geoff Dyer’s selection of DH Lawrence’s Essays ‘Life with a Capital L’
The following is a pre-edited version of a review which was published in Prospect magazine, March 15th, 2019. ...
Bernard Richards in conversation with Ian McEwan, 1992
Bernard Richards – Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, who taught English at the College between 1972 and...
Bernard Richards in conversation with Derek Walcott, 1992
Bernard Richards - Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, who taught English at the College between 1972 and...
Review of ‘The Daughter-in-Law’, Arcola Theatre, London, January 2019
The following is a pre-edited version of a review which appears in DH Lawrence Review (the DH Lawrence Journal of...
Tribute to Tolstoy
I gave the following speech on the occasion of the 190th anniversary of Lev Tolstoy's birth, 9th September 2018, to a...
Review of ‘Kolyma Stories’, Varlam Shamalov
KOLYMA STORIES Translated and introduced by Donald Rayfield, New York: New York Review of Books, 2018, £14.99, 741 pp....
Radio 4 ‘Front Row’ Interview about DH Lawrence’s ‘The Daughter-in-Law’
BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Front Row'. Broadcast Wednesday January 16th 2019, 7.15 pm. Interviewed by presenter Samira...
Review of ‘Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter’
Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter Edythe Haber £20 (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 UK, 2019 US), 288...
Resisting Tragedy: A Report on the International D.H. Lawrence Conference, Paris, 2018
The opening of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) This report was written for the D.H. Lawrence Society Newsletter,...
Lawrence’s Bloomsbury: Two Walking Tours
The walking tours for which the notes appear below were written by me and delivered during the...
Loving Fictions: Why Do We Fall in Love with Fictional Characters?
This article was commissioned by an published on the website of IAI - the Institute of Arts and Ideas. It may...
In Memoriam Derek Walcott Part II: an Interview with Poet Jaya Savige
A Shade on the Sea Floor An Interview with Jaya Savige about Derek Walcott (1930-2017) by Dr. Catherine Brown Thursday...
In Memoriam Derek Walcott Part I: A Reminiscence of Meeting Him in 2001
It was 2001 and I was as footloose as I have ever been. Footlooser than I ever want to be again. I threw...
Carnivore: Dorian Gray Meets Trainspotting
Carnivore, Jonathan Lyon, HR, HarperCollins (London, 2017) The following review was published...
Is there a distortion in the perception of Russian literature in the English-speaking cultures?
This was written in response to the title question as posed by The Question, an online forum on which experts...
Five Books by D.H. Lawrence
This is a transcript of a live interview made on 4th March 2017 with David Shackleton of FIVE BOOKS. Five...
Review of ‘Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel’
This review appeared in Standpoint in December/January 2016/17 John Stubbs, Jonathan Swift: The...
Review of ‘The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence’ by James Moran
This review appeared in the Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies, January 2017 The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence:...
Review of the Belknap Press ‘Annotated Wuthering Heights’
This review appeared in Essays in Criticism (2016) 66 (3): 383-389 The Annotated Wuthering Heights. Edited by Janet...
Fear on Camera: Papa Doc’s Haiti
I am rereading Graham Greene’s 1966 novel The Comedians, which I first read as an earnest fifteen-year-old...
Rough Justice: ‘And Then There Were None’ & ‘An Inspector Calls’
Last autumn/winter BBC1 produced two great adaptations of mid-twentieth century British literary smash-hits....
Of Man and Dogs
I have recently read In Defence of Dogs (Penguin 2012, 324 pp.) by John Bradshaw, biologist and...
Teffi from Odessa to Paris
The following is a pre-edited version of a review published here in the May 2016 issue of The Literary Review. ...
An Orgy of Revenge in a Man’s World
Review of the Novel Maestra, by L.S. Hilton The review that appears below is a pre-edited version of an...
BBC 1 Lady Chatterley’s Lover
I was script consultant to Jed Mercurio in his adaptation for Lady Chatterley's Lover - 90 minutes aired on BBC1 on...
Camille: And The Lost Diaries of Samuel Pepys
2016, 338 pp, Whitefox Publishing Last Tuesday a novel was launched in Carmelite Chambers. Trust its...
The Unintended Consequences of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
This article was published in Standpoint magazine on 24th September 2015. What follows is a pre-edited draft. ...
On Script Consulting for BBC1’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
This article was published in The Independent on Sunday 30th August 2015. The following is a pre-edited text. ...
The Prosecutor’s ‘Lady Chatterley’
To own a Penguin 1960 copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover is to own a piece of history - a copy of the book which...
Review of Nabokov’s Letters to His Wife
Letters to Véra Vladimir Nabokov Edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd Penguin Classics, 2014, 798...
D.H. Lawrencians in Gargnano 2014
This article was published in the Newsletter of the D.H. Lawrence Society December 2014 ‘There is’,...
Why to – and how to – read Anna Karenina today
This article, of which an unedited version appears below, was published as ‘Our Love Affair with Anna Karenina’...
Review of ‘Behind the Mask: the Life of Vita Sackville-West’ by Matthew Dennison
Matthew Dennison, Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, William Collins, 2014, 364 pp., £25 This...
Review of ‘Subtly Worded’ by Teffi
Teffi, Subtly Worded, Pushkin Press, 2014, 303 pp., £12 paperback Intro. Anne Marie Jackson. Translations by Anne...
Review of ‘The Kreutzer Sonata Variations’, trans. and ed. Michael R. Katz
Trans. and ed. Michael R. Katz, foreword by Ekaterina Tolstaya, afterword by Andrey Tolstoy Yale University...
Review of ‘The Dog’ by Joseph O’Neill
Published by 4th Estate, 2014 This review appeared in the November 2014 edition Prospect magazine. The title...
Review of Rosamund Bartlett’s translation of ‘Anna Karenina’
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, trans. Rosamund Bartlett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 847 pp, £18.99 [N.B....
Review of CUP’s DH Lawrence Poems, and Richard Owen’s Lady Chatterley’s Villa
Below is the pre-edited version of a review which appeared in Literary Review, September 2014, pp. 8-10. The Poems:...
D.H. Lawrence and Women
Three women who loved Lawrence Dorothy Brett, Frieda Lawrence, Mabel Dodge Luhan 1938, New Mexico A couple of years...
‘Broad range of GCSE literature choices are essential for a full education’
This Telegraph article responds to the furore surrounding the decision of various GCSE boards -...
Summits and Lovers: Retracing the Footsteps of DH Lawrence in the Alps
This Financial Times article describes my experience of filming 'Journey without Shame', a BBC2 Culture...
Mountains of the Mind: How Russian Writers Saw the Caucasus
This Financial Times article looks at the place of the Caucasus in the Russian cultural imagination over the...
Modernism in our Time
This review was published in Essays in Criticism, 60 (2010), 189-96, and appears here as a pre-edited version. Summary...
Lawrence’s ‘Women in Love’ on the Small Screen
This review was published in 'The D.H. Lawrence Newsletter' no. 89, Spring/Summer 2011, 12-18, and is made available...
Rosa Newmarch: Russophile and Poet
This review was published in Translation and Literature, No. 20: 3, 2011, 397-403, and is reproduced here in a...
D.H. Lawrence Homo Religiosus
This review was published in the Journal of the D.H. Lawrence Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2013), 179-188, and is...
Journey Without Shame
This sixty minute BBC2 Culture Show special concerns D.H. Lawrence's 'honeymoon' journey with Frieda...
LAWRENCE: Scandalous! Censored! Banned!
This review was published in the 'Newsletter of the D.H. Lawrence Society', December 2013, and is reproduced by kind...