War: 1915–16

Abstract

At the start of the winter of 1915, Lawrence’s financial position had not been particularly good, but at least he had had the final lump of money from Methuen for The Rainbow (albeit reduced to £33), and he had had a story in the October English Review which would probably have brought him in £10 or £12. He was also hoping for sales of his now revised Italian sketches in American magazines; if two were probably too long, two others, he told Pinker, ‘are just right for magazine publication as they stand … But the whole set would look nice as a serial. But I suppose nobody will want to do that. Yet it would go well, I’m sure’ (Letters, II, p. 398). Pinker was either unconvinced or unsuccessful: none of the sketches appeared in American magazines.