1 ‘his mischievous naughty-boy mood’: Brett, ‘Autobiography: My Long and Beautiful Journey’, South Dakota Review, vol. 5, no. 2 (Summer 1967), p. 12
2 ‘You ahead, I behind’: Lawrence and Brett, p. 47
3 ‘breathless and shaking’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 165
4 ‘grotesque’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 166
5 ‘square, sturdy build’: Lawrence and Brett, p. 49
6 ‘pervasive’ as the ‘air’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 166
7 ‘our second effort’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 167
8 ‘I am not the same as I was!’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 168
9 ‘I cannot describe to you’: Lorenzo in Taos, pp. 172–3
10 “Here’s Eve – the bitch”: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 175
11 ‘cold and distrustful’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 192
12 ‘shadow-pictures’: ‘Indians and Entertainment’, p. 62
13 ‘Pale, dry, baked earth’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Dance of the Sprouting Corn’, in Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays, pp. 71–5
14 ‘Hah!’ snorts Frieda: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 178
15 ‘that represented me taking Tony to Buffalo’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 190
16 ‘We have a hilarious evening’: Lawrence and Brett, p. 125
17 ‘It’s quite big enough, really’: Lawrence and Brett, p. 70
18 ‘only the doctors know’: Suppressed Memoirs, p. 167
19 ‘I have been learning the Truth!’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 230
20 ‘you want to kill me’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 206
21 ‘the roof of the world’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Woman Who Rode Away’, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (Penguin, 1950), pp. 57, 62, 80
22 ‘Do you like it?’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 238
23 ‘revealed the irresistible delight’: Intimate Memories, p. 310
24 ‘where Lorenzo thought he finished me up’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 238
25 ‘monstrous … technicolor’: Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (Ballantine Books, 1978), pp. 405–11
26 ‘too damn mean’: Corresponding Lives, p. 95
27 ‘Well … I had the essence of him in my hands’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 243
28 ‘wants you dead … lion’s den’: Lorenzo in Taos, pp. 240–1
29 ‘£50,000’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 250
30 ‘had had her own way … eternal fire’: St Mawr, in St Mawr and Other Stories, ed. Brian Finney (Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 19–139
31 ‘the forty-foot dynamos’: Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (The Modern Library, 1931), p. 380
32 ‘the greatest force the Western world’: The Education of Henry Adams, p. 388
33 ‘touch of bronchial trouble!’: Laurence and Brett, p. 141
34 ‘destroying himself’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 255
35 ‘thrice alone’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 266
36 ‘exchange spirits with them’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Hopi Snake Dance’, in Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays, pp. 84, 91
37 ‘One wonders what one went for’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Just Back from the Snake Dance – Tired Out’, in Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays, p. 185
38 ‘not for the Horse to laugh at’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 268
39 ‘ragged ghost’: ‘The Hopi Snake Dance’, pp. 84–5
40 ‘heavily built, rather short’: ‘The Hopi Snake Dance’, pp. 88–92
41 ‘the gruesome convulsion of a decapitated frog’: Aby Warburg, ‘Kreuzinger Lecture’, first published in translation as ‘A Lecture on the Serpent Ritual’ in the Journal of the Warburg Institute, vol. 2 (1938), pp. 277–92
42 ‘I don’t care for that kind of thing … little mad’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Princess’, in St Mawr and Other Stories, ed. Finney, pp. 190–5
43 ‘the graveyard of humanity’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Climbing Down from Pisgah’, in Phoenix I, p. 740
44 ‘with all that is human’: Suppressed Memoirs, p. 28
45 ‘Both you and Brill feel’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 276
46 ‘If I can once get started’: Corresponding Lives, p. 92
47 ‘Perhaps we shall look’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 278
48 ‘dangerous’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 278
49 ‘frail failure’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 270
50 ‘The little town of Oaxaca is lonely’: Letters, 15 November 1924
51 ‘You marry me’: Plumed Serpent, p. 444
52 ‘How else, she said to herself’: Plumed Serpent, p. 422
53 ‘I hear that Mabel thinks’: Journey with Genius, p. 338
54 ‘simply transposed’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 114
55 a ‘great cat’: Plumed Serpent, p. 438
56 ‘I managed to finish my Mexican novel’: Letters, 6 April 1925
57 ‘tail-end of influenza’: Letters, 4 February 1925
58 ‘grippe’ with ‘a typhoid inside’: Letters, 6 April 1925
59 ‘like a maniac the whole night’: ‘Not I, But the Wind…’, p. 151
60 ‘callow youth’: Carl Van Vechten, The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922–30 (University of Illinois Press, 2003), p. 100
61 ‘glad’ to put to ‘some creative use’: Corresponding Lives, p. 190
62 Critics of Mabel have assumed: see Christopher Lasche, The New Radicalism in America, 1889–1963 (Penguin, 1997), p. 33: Mabel ‘cared so little about art in general that when she was presented with the manuscript of Sons and Lovers … she gave the manuscript to Dr Brill’. And David Ellis, Dying Game, p. 183: ‘Some time later she gave the Sons and Lovers manuscript to Brill in payment for his help in treating a friend, so little did she appreciate having her urge to give transformed into a quid pro quo’
63 ‘disloyalty and treachery’: Corresponding Lives, p. 133
64 ‘wrote incessantly’: ‘Autobiography: My Long and Beautiful Journey’, p. 41
65 ‘serpents coiling and uncoiling’: Corresponding Lives, p. 94
66 ‘to ignore each other’s inward lives’: Intimate Memories, p. 24
67 ‘would raise her eyes’: Intimate Memories, p. 8
68 ‘ecstatic’ night: Intimate Memories, p. 11
69 ‘I was thrilled to find’: Mabel Dodge Luhan, ‘My Attitude in the Writing of Autobiography’, published in an abridged version in The New York World-Telegram, 19 April 1933, p. 2
70 ‘auriculas and saxifrage’: Sons and Lovers, p. 8
71 ‘how far’: Suppressed Memoirs, p. 118
72 ‘fox-red … back its flame’: D. H. Lawrence, David, in Complete Plays, pp. 111–54
73 ‘Let’s go to New Mexico’: Aldous Huxley, preface to A Poet and Two Painters
74 ‘I want God, I want poetry’: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Harper Perennial, 2007), p. 231
75 ‘Probably, it’s going to be … come to my attention’: Corresponding Lives, p. 94
76 ‘the most serious “confession”’: Corresponding Lives, p. 95
77 ‘so that there would be nothing’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 394
78 ‘Remember, other people’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 296
79 ‘the greatest experience’: ‘New Mexico’, p. 176
80 ‘very little about diseases’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘Introduction to These Paintings’, in Phoenix I, pp. 554–5
81 ‘I feel so strongly’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 348
82 yield ‘entirely’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 351
83 ‘always double’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 170
84 ‘Like a bird’: ‘Not I, But the Wind…’, p. 296
85 ‘extraordinary and potent woman’: D. H. Lawrence, ‘None of That’, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (Penguin, 1950), pp. 210–23
86 ‘somehow he could not give’: Lorenzo in Taos, p. 253
87 ‘He was an artist first of all’: Aldous Huxley, preface to The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. Aldous Huxley (Viking, 1932), p. xv
88 ‘So glad to get your exciting letter’: Norman Douglas, p. 414
89 ‘the ashes of Lawrence’: Frieda Lawrence and her Circle: Letters from, to and about Frieda Lawrence, ed. Harry T. Moore and Dale B. Montague (Macmillan, 1981), p. 72