This Financial Times article describes my experience of filming ‘Journey without Shame’, a BBC2 Culture Show special recreating DH Lawrence’s ‘honeymoon’ journey with Frieda Weekley across the Alps in the summer of 1912 (see ‘Broadcasting’). Basically, this week on the Alpine road with co-presenter Geoff Dyer, director/producer Rupert Edwards, and the rest of the BBC crew was hugely stressful, physically tough, completely wonderful, and made me appreciate Lawrence as never before.
The following article is the pre-edited version of a chapter in Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration edited by Charlotte Grant and Alistair Robinson (London: Bloomsbury, 2024). It is reproduced here with the permission of the editors. Abstract This chapter...
Report of the Thirtieth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Catherine Brown A Walking Tour of Lawrence's Hampstead Friday 30th June 2023 In person 13.00-15.00 UK time ATTENDERS Eleven people attended including Catherine Brown, Anne...
Report of the Twenty-Ninth meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Robert Bullock The Road to Vence 1928-1929 Thursday 25th May 2023 By Zoom 18.30-20.00 UK time ATTENDERS 32 people attended, including, from outside of...
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...