General editors' preface

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Cue-titles

Introduction

France, Germany and America, Spring 1924 `The Border-Line', `The Last Laugh', `Jimmy and the Desperate Woman', `A Pure Witch'

New Mexico, Summer 1924 `The Woman Who Rode Away'

Italy, Winter 1925-6 `Smile', Sun, `Glad Ghosts', `The Rocking-Horse Winner'

Italy, Summer 1926 `Two Blue Birds', `The Man Who Loved Islands'

Italy, Autumn 1926 `In Love'

Italy, Spring 1927 `The Lovely Lady', `None of That!'

Publication

The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (1928)

The Lovely Lady (1933)

Reception

Texts

THE WOMAN WHO RODE AWAY AND OTHER STORIES

Two Blue Birds

Sun

The Woman Who Rode Away

Smile

The Border-Line

Jimmy and the Desperate Woman

The Last Laugh

In Love

The Man Who Loved Islands

Glad Ghosts

None of That!

The Rocking-Horse Winner

The Lovely Lady

Appendixes

I Sun: Variants between the two versions

II `The Border-Line': Early manuscript version

III `The Last Laugh': Lawrence's revisions in MS

IV `More Modern Love': Manuscript version of `In Love'

V `The Man Who Loved Islands': First manuscript version

VI `Glad Ghosts': Lawrence's manuscript revisions

(a) Lawrence's revisions in MSII

(b) Two fragments of MSI

VII `The Lovely Lady': The Black Cap version

VIII A Pure Witch

Explanatory notes

Textual apparatus

Line-end hyphenation

A note on pounds, shillings and pence