Lawrentianadj.

1928 T. E. Lawrence Let. 20 Jan. (1938) 568 Laurentian, that sudden insult. I thought I'd sloughed off those manners with the names.

1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. i. 10 It would have necessitated a team of men with Byronic idealism and Lawrentian imagination.

1966 Punch 20 July 123/3 The great merit of Mr. Mousa's study is that while his mind is clearly weighted against the Lawrentian myth, he appears to be scrupulously fair to Lawrence.

1930 L. P. Hartley in Sat. Rev. 15 Feb. 203/1 Morgan's description of the sisters has many Lawrentian echoes, especially in the use of the word ‘dark’.

1931 R. Aldington Colonel's Daughter v. 270 The good old Lawrentian dark abdomen.

1936 A. Huxley Olive Tree 211 A characteristically Lawrencian expression.

1938 Times 28 Jan. 367/3 It is..possible also to put her down as a mixture of the living and the merely Lawrentian.

1944 H. Treece Herbert Read 92 Most of Read's ‘Eclogues’..are filled with a dark passionate emotion, a Lawrentian impulse centred in the body.

1944 Scrutiny 12 256 Levels at which the characteristic Laurentian contribution may well appear the reverse of helpful.

1959 Listener 16 Apr. 683/1 Dr. Leavis successfully established a Lawrentian enclave in Cambridge.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Oct. 630/1 Mr. de Vries has nicely satirized..Lawrencian and Bohemian ‘free livers’.

1973 Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 15/2 It has a Lawrentian turn of situation, too. There is a knight, Sir Tom, whose wife Margaret is ill-served—he comes home only for weekends and is too gentle anyway for her.

1948 H. T. Moore in D. H. Lawrence Lett. to Bertrand Russell p. vi Meanwhile, here is another contribution to Lawrence literature, one of the last important collections of Lawrenciana.

1959 Notes & Queries Mar. 120/1 There is an immense literature of ‘Lawrentiana’.

1972 Observer 19 Nov. 4/2 There has been a ‘tremendous revival’ in Lawrentiana from a purely touristic point of view.

1957 L. Durrell Let. Apr. in Spirit of Place (1969) 139 The fury of Lawrentians everywhere.

1959 H. T. Moore D. H. Lawrence Misc. p. xxv Raymond Williams, whose comparison of Lawrence and Carlyle may flutter some of the Lawrenceans.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 1369/1 Both the Lawrentians and the anti-Lawrentians have been exaggerating ever since.

1992 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 110 After he has reread Women in Love, he realizes that there is a distinction, though blurred, between the author and characters in their points of view and admits that he has converted into a true Lawrentian.