THE biggest and most prestigious literary conference ever held in Australia will take place in late June in Sydney this year.

Organised by the DH Lawrence Society of North America, it will attract leading Lawrence scholars from around the world.

The goal of the Conference, say its organisers,
is to " bring together scholars interested in all aspects of D. H. Lawrence’s writing with those interested in its reception by modernist, post-modernist, and post-colonial writers. When Lawrence arrived in Sydney in 1922, two decades after Federation, Australia was consciously redefining its relation to its colonial past and imagining new nationalist futures, as Lawrence recognised in Kangaroo."

Our Secretary, Sandra (Jobson) Darroch, will be presenting a paper. Sandra will speak about her literary discovery demonstrating that Lawrence based much of the character of Alvina Houghton in his novelThe Lost Girl on the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield.

Our President, John Lacey, has been asked to help guide delegates to places Lawrence travelled to while in Sydney in 1922, including a ferry trip to Manly.

For more details, see the Conference website: http://dhlsna.com/australiacon.html

OUR CHINESE MEMBER'S LATEST SUCCESS

Bi Bingbin is one of several overseas members of the DH Lawrence Society of Australia. He is a Chinese literary scholar and has translated into Chinese a number of DH Lawrence novels, including Kangaroo. (See some selected covers of his translations above - his Kangaroo edition is second from the left.) Bi regrets he will not be able to make it to Sydney for the DHL Conference in June, but he sends his greetings and best wishes for the event. He hopes he can obtain some of the papers given at the conference. We will certainly keep him posted, via Rananim, on what happens. – RD

FORTCHOMING EVENTS

We are planning our annual Harbour cruise on the steam yacht Lady Hopetoun. This has been delayed because the Lady H has been in dry dock, undergoing repairs. We will have a date for a voyage soon. Please check our website for this and we will also email as many people as possible. (Please send us your email address if you think we haven't got it already) To email us, click HERE.