Helen Baron
University of Hull, UK
'Helen Corke's The Light of Common Day'
Helen Corke's relationship with Lawrence from 1909 to 1912 is well known, from the CUP edition of The Trespasser and the CUP publication of her autobiography, In Our Infancy, which covered her life from 1882-1912. But she wrote a second volume of autobiography, covering her life from 1913 to 1952, which has remained unpublished. What can this unpublished work tell us about her own career and development as well as her reflections on her relationships with Lawrence himself and with Jessie Chambers?