The Boy in the Bush

D. H. Lawrence, M. L. Skinner

Cambridge University Press, 11. apr 2002 - 564 pages

This is the first critical edition of The Boy in the Bush, a novel whose unlikely genesis has been surrounded in mystery and the subject of claim and counter-claim. A systematic study of all the extant textual documents has revealed a process of composition and revision which qualifies the novel to be treated unequivocally as part of the Lawrence canon. At Lawrence's suggestion an Australian nurse and part-time author, Mollie Skinner (whom he had met in 1922), wrote a tale set in late nineteenth-century Western Australia about a newly-arrived young Englishman's reactions to Perth and the outback. Lawrence's complete rewriting converted her production into an ambitious, powerful novel. The reading text here established eliminates all such instances of censorship and strips away the thousands of regularisings and miscopyings introduced by typists and typesetters. Based on Lawrence's autograph manuscript the text meticulously incorporates his subsequent revisions in the typescripts and proofs. Contents: General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; The Boy in the Bush; Appendixes; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.

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An Australian lady, Mollie Skinner, wrote a novel about the daily life of an English Youngster settling down in the West Australian bush. The story was unpublished, when Lawrence it saw. He liked the ...

Contents

• General editors preface page: vii
• Cuetitles: xvi
• The writing of The Boy in the Bush: xxv
• The revision of the typescripts: xxxiii
• Mollie Skinners and Lawrences relative responsibilities: xlv
• Text: lvii
• THE BOY IN THE BUSH I: lxiii
• Jack Arrives in Australia: 7
• The Twin Lambs: 24
• Driving to Wandoo: 37
• Wandoo: 51
• The Lambs Come Home: 59
• In the Yard: 84
• Out Back and Some Letters: 92
• Home for Christmas: 108
• New Years Eve: 122
• Shadows Before: 139
• Blows: 156
• The Great Passing: 171
• Tom and Jack Ride Together: 192
• Jamboree: 201
• Uncle John Grant: 208
• On the Road: 219
• After Two Years: 229
• The Governors Dance: 245
• The Welcome at Wandoo: 258
• The Last of Easu: 269
• Lost: 283
• The Find: 291
• Gold: 295
• The Offer to Mary: 311
• Trot Trot Back Again: 334
• The Rider on the Red Horse: 339
• Maps: 357
• Textual apparatus 435: 383

About the author

D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. His father was a coal miner and Lawrence grew up in a mining town in England. He always hated the mines, however, and frequently used them in his writing to represent both darkness and industrialism, which he despised because he felt it was scarring the English countryside. Lawrence attended high school and college in Nottingham and, after graduation, became a school teacher in Croyden in 1908. Although his first two novels had been unsuccessful, he turned to writing full time when a serious illness forced him to stop teaching. Lawrence spent much of his adult life abroad in Europe, particularly Italy, where he wrote some of his most significant and most controversial novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly's Lover. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, who had left her first husband and her children to live with him, spent several years touring Europe and also lived in New Mexico for a time. Lawrence had been a frail child, and he suffered much of his life from tuberculosis. Eventually, he retired to a sanitorium in Nice, France. He died in France in 1930, at age 44. In his relatively short life, he produced more than 50 volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel journals, and letters, in addition to the novels for which he is best known.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Boy in the Bush; Cambridge edition of the letters and works of D. H. Lawrence: Works of D. H. Lawrence / general ed. James T. Boulton, David Herbert Lawrence; THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE W; The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence; Works of D.H. Lawrence; Works, David Herbert Lawrence
• Authors: D. H. Lawrence, M. L. Skinner
• Editors: M. L. Skinner, Paul Eggert
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0521007143, 9780521007146
• Length: 564 pages