BRETT: From Bloomsbury to New Mexico. A Biography.
Pp. 300(last blank), 16 plates (8 coloured), text illustrations, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, the backstrip lightly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1984. First edition. *The painter Dorothy Brett was a contemporary at the Slade with Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Stanley Spencer. Through Ottoline Morrell, she became involved with Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry. When, in 1924, D. H. Lawrence sought recruits for his utopian colony of Rananim, in New Mexico, Brett and Murry, with whom she was having an affair, pledged their allegiance. But Murry, who was at the same time pursuing Frieda Lawrence, failed to turn up, and Rananim became a menage a trois: Lawrence, Frieda and Brett. Lawrence returned to England in 1925, but after following him briefly to Capri, Dorothy Brett returned to New Mexico, where she lived for the rest of her life, becoming an American citizen in 1938. Item #169174
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