D.H. Lawrence Group
The Group operates as part of the D.H. Lawrence Society of the UK. The Society’s meetings take place for the most part in Lawrence’s home town of Eastwood near Nottingham. This Group was set up by Catherine Brown (a Vice-President of the D.H. Lawrence Society) as an extension of the Society’s activities in the South of England. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, however, most of its meetings have been on Zoom, and its membership and attendance are international. A few meetings per year, however, are in-person, and take place in or near London. Members of the Group are encouraged to (but are not required to) join the Society. Like the main Eastwood Society, the London group meets monthly during the academic year in order to discuss Lawrence’s works.
No prior knowledge of Lawrence is needed in order to attend meetings, though readings are often set in advance, and members are encouraged to read them. Many of the current members are academics or students; many are not. ‘Membership’ consists simply of having one’s email on the group’s email list, and in coming whenever one would like to and can; but all members are encouraged to become members of the D. H. Lawrence Society, based in Lawrence’s home town of Eastwood.
A previous London Lawrence group existed between 1988 and 1992 and, like the current one between September 2019 and March 2020, met in Bloomsbury. Members of the current Group who were also members of the former one include Jane and Dudley Nichols and Stephen Alexander.
Activities of the current Group may include hearing a presentation by a member, followed by a discussion; reading Lawrence’s works out loud; watching film adaptations of Lawrence works; visiting relevant places; and social events.
Date & Time
Meetings are on a Thursday or Friday, 6.30–8pm (GMT/BST) in the last week of each month, between October and June.
How to join
To be added to the Group’s email list; please email Catherine below.
Write-ups
All meetings are written up by me (Catherine) and added to the website, unless otherwise stated.
Programme 2022 – 23
Events will be held 6.30-8.30pm at local UK time (either GMT or BST) by Zoom unless stated otherwise.
2022
Thursday 27 October
Lawrence and Pedagogy: Teaching Lawrence in Universities Today
Shirley Bricout, Marina Ragachevskaya, Annalise Grice, Julianne Newmark and Audra Belmore
Friday 18 November
My father, Women in Love’s ‘Young Russian’: the daughter of Boris de Chroustchoff in conversation with Catherine Brown
Natasha de Chroustchoff
Friday 16 December
Play reading of David, introduced by Shirley Bricout
Catherine Brown
2023
Thursday 26 January
Aaron’s Rod and Music
Alex Englund
Thursday 23rd March
‘The two versions of “Whether or Not”‘
Jim Phelps
Thursday 27 April
Flickering Figures: Modes of Reading Animals in The Rainbow
Maria Treijling
Thursday 25 May
Lawrence’s Two Final Years
Robert Bullock
Thursday 29 or Friday 30 June
Excursion – IN PERSON IN OR NEAR LONDON
Write-ups
2022-23
D. H. Lawrence and: Figurative Animals
Report of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Maria Trejling Flickering Figures: Modes of Reading Animals in The Rainbow Thursday 27th April 2023 By Zoom 18.30-20.00 UK time ATTENDERS 15...
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?’ Thursday, 23rd March 2023 By Zoom 18.30-20.00 UK time ATTENDERS 24 people attended, including, from outside of...
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 Absoluteness and Relationality in Aaron's Rod Thursday, 26th January 2023 By Zoom 18.30-20.00 UK time ATTENDERS 24...
D. H. Lawrence and: David
Report of the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group SHIRLEY BRICOUT WITH CATHERINE BROWN DAVID PLAY READING Friday, 16th December 2022 By Zoom 18.30 onwards UK time ATTENDERS 17 people attended,...
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 Boris De Chroustchoff in conversation with Catherine Brown Friday, 18th November 2022 By Zoom 18.30 onwards UK time ATTENDERS...
D. H. Lawrence and: Pedagogy
Report of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Audra Belmore, Shirley Bricout, Annalise Grice, Julianne Newmark, Marina Ragachevskaya Lawrence and Pedagogy: Teaching Lawrence in Universities Today Thursday, 27th...
2021-22
D. H. Lawrence and: the Cearne
Report of the Twenty-Third Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Jane and Dudley Nichols Walking Literary Limpsfield Chart Saturday, 2nd July 2022, late morning until late afternoon In person In and near Limpsfield Chart, Kent, UK ATTENDERS...
D. H. Lawrence and: Historiography
Report of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Michael Bell Lawrence and Historiography Friday, 27th May 2022 By Zoom 18.30-20.00 UK time ATTENDERS 27 people attended, including, outside of...
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 Thursday, 28th April 2022 By Zoom 18.30-20.00 UK time ATTENDERS 25 people attended, including, from outside of...
D. H. Lawrence and: Patriarchs
Report of the Twentieth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Shirley Bricout D. H. Lawrence and the Patriarchs of the Book of Genesis Thursday 24th March 2022 By Zoom 18.30-20.00 UK time ATTENDERS 26 people attended, including,...
D. H. Lawrence and: Genre
Report of the Nineteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Simonetta de Filippis Genre Translation and Narrative Strategies Friday 25th February 2022 By Zoom 6.30-8.00 pm UK time ATTENDERS 17...
D. H. Lawrence and: Insects
Report of the Eighteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Rachel Murray Insects, Irritation and Bodily Discomfort Friday 28th January 2022 By Zoom 6.30-8.00 pm UK time ATTENDERS 18 people...
2020-21
D. H. Lawrence and: Musicals
Report of the Seventeenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Glyn Bailey and Colleagues Learning Lawrence Through the Medium of Musicals – A Page-to-Stage Retrospective with the Creative Team of CENSORED: THE SCANDALOUS LIFE OF D. H. LAWRENCE...
D. H. Lawrence and: Etruscans
Report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Stefania Michelucci Lawrence’s Representations of Ancient Italy and the Rise of European Totalitarian Regimes Thursday 17th June 2021 By Zoom 6.30 pm BST –...
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 Thursday 29th April 2021 By Zoom 6.30 pm BST – several hours later ATTENDERS ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Extinction Rebellion
Report of the Fifteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Trevor Norris Lawrence's Nature and Contemporary Ecophilosophy Friday 26th March 2021 By Zoom 6.30-8.00 pm ATTENDERS Thirty-two people attended,...
D. H. Lawrence and: Animals
Report of the Fourteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Lara Feigel Encounters Between Humans and Animals Thursday 25th February 2021 By Zoom (during period of Coronavirus lockdown) 6.30-8.00 pm GMT ATTENDERS ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Abruzzo
Report of the Thirteenth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Anthony Pacitto A Sense of Ancient Gods Thursday 28th January 2021 By Zoom (during period of Coronavirus lockdown) 6.30-8.30 pm ATTENDERS Twenty-nine...
D. H. Lawrence and: The Plumed Serpent
Report of the Twelfth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Terry Gifford The Plumed Serpent and Ecology Thursday 17th December 2020 By Zoom (during period of Coronavirus lockdown) 6.30-8.30 pm ATTENDERS Catherine...
D. H. Lawrence and: Rage
Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group The D. H. Lawrence Memory Theatre: James Walker Theme:Rage Friday 27th November 2020 By Zoom (during the period of Coronavirus lockdown) 6.30-8.30 pm ATTENDERS...
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 Place Photo by Max Leopold Wagner (1880-1962), a scholar of romance linguistics who travelled frequently in Sardinia 1905-27; Lawrence...
2019-20
D. H. Lawrence and: Film
Report of the Ninth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Catherine Brown Lawrence's Short Stories on Film Thursday 25th June 2020 By Zoom (during period of Coronavirus lockdown) 6.30-8.30 pm ATTENDERS Shirley...
D. H. Lawrence and: Illness
Report of the Eighth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Catherine Brown Lawrence, Illness, and what he would have made of the Coronavirus Pandemic Friday 22nd May 2020 By Zoom (during period of Coronavirus lockdown) ...
D. H. Lawrence and: The Married Man
Report of the Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group The Married Man - A Play Reading Friday 24th April 2020 By Zoom (during period of Coronavirus lockdown; the March meeting was cancelled) 6.30-8.50 pm ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Locations
Report of the Sixth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Dudley Nichols Lawrencian Locations Thursday 27th February 2020 New College of the Humanities, 19 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3HH 6.30-8.30 pm ATTENDERS ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Belarus
Report of the Fifth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Marina Ragachevskaya Minsk State Linguistic University, Minsk, Belarus Lawrence's Reception in Belarus and Russia Thursday 23rd January 2020 New College of the...
D. H. Lawrence and: Widowing
Report of the Fourth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd: A Play Reading Friday 13th December 2019 New College of the Humanities, 19 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3HH 6.30-8.50 pm ATTENDERS ...
D. H. Lawrence and: Pan
Report of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Maria Thanassa Sardonic Paganism: D. H. Lawrence and the Figure of Pan Friday 22nd November 2019 New College of the Humanities, 19 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3HH 6.30-8.30...
D. H. Lawrence and: Fashion
SECOND MEETING REPORT THE RED-TROUSERED PHILOSOPHER: D. H. LAWRENCE AND THE REVOLT INTO STYLE STEPHEN ALEXANDER Thursday 24th October 2019 New College of the Humanities, 19 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3HH 6.30-8.30 pm ...
D. H. Lawrence and: A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Report of the Inaugural Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Hugh Stevens A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover Friday 20th September 2019 New College of the Humanities, 19 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3HH 6.30-8.30 pm ...