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Alan has not been killed at the front, only blinded. Believing that this will make his life a burden rather than a joy to Kitty, he does not return to her. Instead, under an assumed name, he takes to writing juveniles, attended only by a secretary (Frieda Inescort) and his friend Sir George Barton (John Halliday). On the eve of their marriage, Kitty and Gerald learn of his existence. Still hell-bent on self-sacrifice, Alan arranges the furniture in the living room, hides his Braille books, awaits their call. When they arrive, he greets them soberly, pours a drink...
...WIND-Frieda Lawrence -Viking ($2.50). Until Frieda Lawrence published her testament this week, it must have seemed to her that every Tom, Dick & Harry, Thomasina and Henrietta had had their impertinent say about her late greatly-discussed husband, David Herbert Lawrence. Perhaps it would have been more dignified to keep silence when so many hastened to speak, but Frieda Lawrence has never stood on her dignity. "I did not want to write this book," says she. "I wanted to give Lawrence my silence." Then, with refreshing candor: "Do I want to blow my own trumpet? Yes, I do. . . . I will...
Lawrence and Frieda were a strangely assorted pair. Lawrence was a lower-class Englishman, Frieda a German aristocrat. When they first met, he was a poverty-laden unknown of 26, she a settled matron of 31, with three children, married to a Nottingham University professor. Lawrence went to tea, to call on the professor. He met Frieda instead, and they fell in love almost at first sight. Frieda tried to have an affair with him, but he insisted on all or nothing; finally she left her husband and children, went to Germany with Lawrence. Her family were horror-struck...
...Though Frieda and Lawrence quarreled they never separated for long. She shared his nomad existence 18 years, in Europe, Ceylon, Australia, the U. S., was with him in his last days on the Riviera. "I enjoyed being poor and I didn't want to play a role in the world." The thing she missed most was her children, whom she saw only secretly, at bitterly long intervals. The Lawrences quarreled not only with each other but with most of their friends. Their friendship with Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murry "was the only spontaneous and jolly" one they...
...Frieda Lawrence's book will be read mostly on her husband's account, but readers will find in it things of her own. Her shrewd judgment of him as a man: "In his heart of hearts I think he always dreaded women, felt that they were in the end more powerful than men." And her indignant denial that in Lawrence there was anything of the pornographer: "Passionate people don't need tricks...