Whacks

D.A.N. Jones

  • The Works of Witter Bynner: Selected Letters edited by James Kraft
    Faber, 275 pp, £11.00, January 1982, ISBN 0 374 18504 2
  • A Memoir of D.H. Lawrence: The Betrayal by G.H. Neville, edited by Carl Baron
    Cambridge, 208 pp, £18.00, January 1982, ISBN 0 521 24097 2

Two characters in pursuit of their author: such are George Neville and Witter Bynner, two chunks of raw material, anxious to tell the world about their cook. George Neville went to school with D.H. Lawrence and supposed himself the ‘original’ of George Saxton in The White Peacock: in his memoir he congratulates himself upon his useful contribution to Lawrence’s conception of true manliness. Witter Bynner met Lawrence in later life, in Mexico, and was forced to recognise himself as Owen Rhys in The Plumed Serpent: in his letters we find him deftly defending himself against the accusation of unmanliness which Lawrence had brought against him.

You are not Logged In

  • If you have already registered login here
  • If you are a print subscriber using the site for the first time please register here
  • If you are not yet a subscriber you can subscribe here
  • If you are a member of a subscribing institution or University library please login here
  • If you have an Institutional print subscription and online access is not included, find out about our Institutional online subscriptions