T. E. Lawrence, Men in Print

Chris Joyce (University of Cambridge)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.3: Middle-Eastern Arabic Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary.
Vol. editors: Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Joseph Farag (University of Minnesota), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1940

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection

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After completing the manuscript of

The Mint

, Lawrence told Forster [letter, 6 August 1928] that he felt “as dry as a squeezed orange”; he thought it unlikely he would “ever be moved to write anything again.” Further things were to follow, however – among them a number of literary articles. In 1927, the editors of the

Spectator

invited Lawrence to undertake some reviewing, the results of which were posthumously collected as

Men in Print

(Golden Cockerel Press, 1940). He wrote under the pseudonym Colin Dale (that being, he said, the last London underground station he had entered: it is near RAF Hendon). For the

Spectator

he wrote a review of recent or recently re-printed fiction, including works by W. H. Hudson and William Gerhardie; criticism by Philip Guadella; Hakluyt’s

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Citation: Joyce, Chris. "Men in Print". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 September 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24840, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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