“Think I shall like these tropics”: D. H. Lawrence and Edward, Prince of Wales, in Sri Lanka in 1922

Apart from translating some short stories by the Sicilian novelist Giovanni Verga, D. H. Lawrence produced only one literary work during or relating to his five weeks’ stay in the tropics — at Ceylon, modern-day Sri Lanka — between 13 March and 24 April, 1922. It is one of Lawrence’s inimitable but...

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Main Author: Richard Lansdown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2016-08-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3300/3245