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      ...

Catherine Brown