N. H. Reeve
Editing "Wintry Peacock"
Lawrence was an inveterate reviser of his writings, and his January 1919 story 'Wintry Peacock' is no exception; he made substantial alterations within the original manuscript and between manuscript and published version, and this paper attempts to consider their nature and effects. Various issues come into view, including the story's context - Lawrence's first return to his home regions since his marriage – his immediately post-war sense of sexual battle, and his infrequent and often strangely charged use of first-person narration. The paper is rooted in the preparation of texts of the early versions of the story for the Cambridge edition of : a volume that will gather together Lawrence's uncollected early short fiction.