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A Defence of Jessie Chambers' D.H. Lawrence A Personal Record
Malcolm Pittock writes in defence of Jessie Chambers' memoir of D.H. Lawrence which critics have suggested reveals more about her than it...
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“Whatever I forget, I shall never forget the Haggs - I loved it so” D.H. Lawrence
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Apr 12, 20221 min read
Elizabeth Chambers
We were recently very pleased to be sent this photograph by Richard Billings who has been researching his family tree. He believed the...
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haggsfarmsociety
Apr 17, 20212 min read
Whatever happened to ...?
Mary a.k.a Molly, born 15th January 1896 was the youngest of the three Chambers daughters and is the one child about whom little is known...
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Jan 25, 20213 min read
Landscape and Literature, Landscape and Music
A very successful Haggs Farm Preservation Society AGM on zoom was followed by an absorbing talk from Alan Wilson and Malcolm Gray about...
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Nov 14, 20202 min read
Whatever happened to ...?
In addition to the relatives of the Chambers family who emigrated to Canada, one branch also found their way to New Zealand. This is the...
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Sep 29, 20203 min read
Whatever happened to...?
Hubert & Bernard... the 'middle' Chambers brothers Hubert was the fifth surviving child born to Edmund and Sarah. Another son, John...
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Aug 1, 20207 min read
Lawrence and the Garnetts
“It was impossible to know Lawrence without loving him.” Forty years ago I bought a bundle of papers for £1 at a Saturday sale in the...
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haggsfarmsociety
May 3, 20205 min read
Robert Frost and Edward Thomas: Inspirational Friends
Robert Frost and Edward Thomas seem, on the surface, to be the most unlikely of poets to become inspirational friends...
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haggsfarmsociety
Mar 29, 20204 min read
MEMORIES OF MAY HOLBROOK FROM VANCOUVER ISLAND
The following article appeared in the Saskatoon Western Producer, a well known farm newspaper in Western Canada around 1956 following the...
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haggsfarmsociety
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Alan Wilson, chair of the DH Lawrence society
A warm welcome to the new chairman of the DH Lawrence society, Alan Wilson, who will be captain of the ship from March 2020. Alan, having...
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haggsfarmsociety
Mar 1, 20205 min read
The English Library, Tenerife
I thought I would share with members a fascinating find made on a recent holiday to Tenerife, as it was Lawrence who indirectly led me there
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haggsfarmsociety
Feb 7, 20204 min read
Walt Whitman - Inspired by a City
by Steve Newman Walt Whitman the American poet, of part Welsh decent, was as much the literary grandfather of D. H. Lawrence as any other...
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Jan 12, 20202 min read
Whatever happened to...?
Muriel May Chambers b. 20/10/1883 was the second child of Edmund & Sarah. The eldest of the three daughters, she was the one who had the...
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haggsfarmsociety
Dec 15, 20195 min read
Delius and Fenby: A Creative Friendship
The composer Frederick Delius was sixty-six when the twenty-two-year old Eric Fenby wrote to him, and although a very different relationship
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haggsfarmsociety
Dec 10, 20193 min read
Up Close and Personal with DHL
That’s when I was finally in the loop. I realised I was sitting in front of D.H.L.’s HANDWRITING. That stunned me into silence.
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haggsfarmsociety
Nov 16, 20193 min read
Jessie and Bert: their lives and loves
Jessie and Bert: how their lives and loves nurtured the genius of DH Lawrence.
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haggsfarmsociety
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Edward Elgar & Helen Weaver: A Love Affair
Just three years before D. H. Lawrence was born the twenty-five-year old Edward Elgar fell in love with Helen Weaver.
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haggsfarmsociety
Oct 20, 20192 min read
Whatever Happened to…?
What happened to the Chambers family after Haggs Farm?
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haggsfarmsociety
Oct 1, 20191 min read
Great News - update to our July Blog!
The judge's annotated copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence from the landmark obscenity trial of 1960 has been acquired by the...
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haggsfarmsociety
Sep 29, 20194 min read
A Revelation by Steve Newman
My discovery of Hemingway and Lawrence came about as a result of a new English teacher: a fresh-faced young Welshman called Mr Jones
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