Lawrence centenary celebration to be held in Taos
August 26, 2022
One hundred years ago, the nomadic British writer D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda Lawrence, also a writer, accepted an invitation from socialite and arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan to visit her in Taos, N.M. In September, the D. H. Lawrence Ranch Initiatives will sponsor a centenary celebration of the couple’s arrival in Taos.
Although the Lawrences had traveled in England, Germany, Italy, Ceylon, and France, neither had ever been to the United States. Luhan’s letter reached them in Sydney, Australia. The journey to San Francisco by ship took weeks. From the west coast, they boarded a train to Lamy, N.M., where Luhan and her husband Tony Luhan met them and carried them by car to Taos.
Their arrival coincided with D. H. Lawrence’s 37th birthday, Sept. 11, 1922. The visit would be life-changing for the couple. As the celebrated writer famously put it, “New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me forever.”
“New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me forever.”
D.H. Lawrence
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