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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
Part I: Literary Formation
1 Early Voices
(i) Eastwood
(ii) ‘In-betweens’
(iii) Haggs Farm and Jessie Chambers
(iv) Books
(v) Pupil-teacher
(vi) Writing
(vii) College
(viii) ‘Ruby-Glass’
(ix) Modified beliefs
(x) ‘Art and the Individual’
(xi) ‘Laetitia’
(xii) ‘La dernière fois’
2 Literary London
(i) Croydon
(ii) ‘Unrelenting realism’
(iii) The English Review and Ford Madox Hueffer
(iv) ‘All the Swells’
(v) Versions of Eastwood
(vi) ‘From woman to woman’
(vii) ‘The Saga of Siegmund’
3 ‘A Small but Individual Name’
(i) Editors, publishers and printers
(ii) ‘Paul Morel’
(iii) Engagement to Louie
(iv) Death and love
(v) ‘Intimacy’
(vi) Kinds of betrayal
(vii) Edward Garnett
(viii) Collapse and convalescence
(ix) Breaking off
(x) Frieda
(xi) ‘Making history’
Part II: UnEnglished
4 ‘Coming Out Wholesome and Myself’
(i) In fortified Germany
(ii) Retreat to Waldbröl
(iii) Honeymoon
(iv) ‘Illicit’
(v) Conflict and tension
(vi) Over the Alps
(vii) Riva and Gargnano
(viii) Re-seeing ‘Paul Morel’
(ix) Transformations
(x) Finding a public
(xi) ‘The humpiest hump’
(xii) ‘The end of my youthful period’
5 Forging a Career
(i) ‘One sheds ones sicknesses in books’
(ii) New stories
(iii) Back to England
(iv) Broadstairs
(v) Taking breath in Irschenhausen
(vi) Fiascherino
(vii) ‘Scapegoats still’
(viii) ‘I have to write differently’
(ix) Divorce
(x) ‘A bit futuristic’
(xi) Striking out
(xii) The married man
Part III: The Bitterness of the War and its Aftermath
6 ‘The Real Fighting Line’
(i) Nightmare
(ii) Fantasies of escape
(iii) ‘Coming into my full feather’
(iv) ‘Philosophicalish’
(v) ‘England, My England’
(vi) Hopefulness – and despair
(vii) ‘The end of my writing for England’
7 Outlaw
(i) Cornwall
(ii) ‘Dies Irae’
(iii) ‘The Reality of Peace’
(iv) Writing for the ‘unseen witnesses’
(v) Eviction and Mecklenburgh Square
(vi) Hermitage
8 ‘Laid Up’
(i) Mountain Cottage
(ii) A bleak Armistice
(iii) Pangbourne and Grimsbury Farm
(iv) Sailing away
Part IV: Europe Again
9 Italy and Sicily
(i) Getting free
(ii) Picinisco and Capri
(iii) ‘Charity-boy of literature’
(iv) Magnus and Monte Cassino
(v) Taormina
(vi) Magnus, again
(vii) Literary business
(viii) Escaping the heat
(ix) Rosalind Baynes
(x) Restlessness
10 End of the Line
(i) Sardinia
(ii) ‘Absolutely at an end with the civilised world’
(iii) Ebersteinburg and the completion of Aaron’s Rod
(iv) Zell-am-See
(v) Attacks on Women in Love
(vi) Invitation to New Mexico
(vii) Finishing up
(viii) Leaving Taormina
Part V: New Worlds and Old Worlds
11 Ceylon and Australia
(i) The voyage out
(ii) Ceylon
(iii) On to Australia
(iv) Sydney and Thirroul
12 On to America
(i) Eastward to America
(ii) New Mexico and ‘Mabeltown’
(iii) New opportunities
(iv) The Danes and Del Monte
(v) ‘Bibbles’
(vi) Thought adventures
(vii) Old Mexico
(viii) Chapala and ‘Quetzalcoatl’
(ix) New York – and separation
(x) ‘A loose, easy, rather foolish world’
(xi) With Gøtzsche to Guadalajara
13 Broken Bonds
(i) ‘On Coming Home’
(ii) Party at the Café Royal
(iii) European interlude
(iv) America again, with Brett
(v) Taos and the Kiowa Ranch
(vi) ‘The Woman Who Rode Away’
(vii) Literary recognition
14 Writing for the Race
(i) Setback
(ii) ‘The Princess’
(iii) Mexico City, Oaxaca, and the completion of ‘Quetzalcoatl’
(iv) Mexican essays
(v) Conflict with Brett
(vi) Sickness and departure
(vii) Recuperating at the ranch
(viii) Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine
(ix) ‘Still a European’
Part VI: Returning
15 Understanding
(i) ‘The body of my past’
(ii) ‘Smile’
(iii) Spotorno
(iv) A new language for the feelings
(v) ‘Dismal as Hades’
(vi) Ravello and Brett
(vii) Reconciliation
16 Writing and Painting
(i) Florence and the Villa Mirenda
(ii) ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’
(iii) Last visit to England
(iv) New pursuits, fresh perspectives
(v) The First Lady Chatterley
(vi) Paintings
(vii) The Second Lady Chatterley
(viii) ‘The Lovely Lady’
Part VII: ‘Unfailing Courage’
17 Friendship and Isolation
(i) Etruscan places
(ii) Change of life
(iii) Satirical fables
(iv) ‘The Man Who Was Through with the World’
(v) Forte dei Marmi – and illness
(vi) Ossiachersee
(vii) Slow recovery
(viii) Compiling Collected Poems
(ix) Plans to publish Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(x) Les Diablerets
(xi) Set apart
18 ‘Dropping a Little Bomb in the World’s Crinoline of Hypocrisy’
(i) Polemical essays
(ii) Travelling with the Brewsters
(iii) Gsteig-bei-Gstaad
(iv) ‘Red Trousers’
(v) Port Cros
(vi) Bandol and Pansies
(vii) Confiscated poems
(viii) Paris
(ix) Spain, and Majorca
(x) ‘Succès de scandale’
(xi) Plättig
(xii) Writing for an ‘improper public’
19 ‘Living on his Spirit’
(i) Nostalgia and anticipation
(ii) Return to Bandol, and Villa Beau Soleil
(iii) ‘The big old pagan vision’
(iv) ‘Semi-invalid’
(v) Ad Astra
(vi) Final words
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
End User License Agreement
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