“Vive les femmes! e la stagione inglese!” Rina Secker, Lawrence’s Discrete Muse

Abstract

Rina Secker and Lawrence at Villa Bernarda, Spotorno, 1926. The quotation appearing in the title of this article (“Long live the ladies! and the English season”) comes from a letter that Lawrence wrote to Martin Secker at Villa Bernarda, Spotorno in 1925. He tells Secker, with his typical ironic touch, that his sister Ada is arriving with a friend: “A bit of friction down at the Villa Maria but probably it’s only the weather. Rain again today.” (Letters, henceforth L,v. 389) The words are in...