Reading Nottingham’s Unread: Republishing James Prior’s Forest Folk

First published in 1901, Prior’s pacy novel is set in Blidworth against a background of the Napoleonic Wars and Luddite riots. It lay unnoticed for many years, although DH Lawrence rated Prior’s work. In 2016, Forest Folk clawed its way into view. How will it fare in the bookshops of 2017? 

Tags: City of Literature, Collected Words, DH Lawrence, DH Lawrence Research Centre, Forest Folk, James Prior, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, reading, tony simpson, writing

New additions to the DH Lawrence collections

In this talk Dr Andrew Harrison will discuss and interpret several recently acquired items in the University’s internationally recognised Lawrence Collections, including a manuscript of ‘Laura Philippine’ and a rare typescript of ‘Pansies’.

Tags: City of Literature, Collected Words, DH Lawrence, DH Lawrence Research Centre, Dr Andrew Harrison, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, reading, writing

Literature in the dock

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous Chatterley Trial, contesting the literary value of DH Lawrence’s controversial last novel.

Appears in Issue 42

Tags: DH Lawrence Research Centre, Dr Andrew Harrison, Lady Chatterley's Lover, obscene publication, School of English, trial