In memoriam.

Gary S. Adelman

Gary Adelman, emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he taught for over forty years, died in February at 77. He was the author of two books on Lawrence: Snow of Fire (on The Rainbow and Women in Love) and Reclaiming D. H. Lawrence, as well as books on Beckett, Hardy, Conrad, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky. With his wife Phyllis, he was a regular and welcome presence at numerous Lawrence events. His latest book on three Irish writers came out posthumously in March. Blinded at 29 as a result of childhood diabetes, he also later received kidney transplants from his mother and later from Phyllis, but continued to remain professionally active. In 1970 he published an autobiographical novel, Honey Out of Stone. Keith Cushman describes him as "an extremely articulate man of great originality, humor, and intelligence,"and he will be greatly missed in Lawrence circles.

Arthur J. (Art) Bachrach

Art Bachrach, who died in December in Taos, taught neurology and psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical School, served as chair of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, and, while at the Naval Medical Research Institute, was director of its Environmental Stress Program and chair of Psychophysiology. Among Lawrencians, however, he is best known for his dedicated work in retirement to Lawrence's New Mexican legacy as leader of the Friends of the Lawrence Ranch and member of the Phoenix Rising Society. Art also ran the well-known Moby Dickens bookshop in Taos. A colorful and energetic figure in town and at local Lawrence conferences, he has done much to ensure the continued existence of the Ranch for future Lawrence scholars and readers.

Angelica Garnett

One of our last remaining living connections with Lawrence, Angelica Garnett, died in early May at age 93. Garnett was the daughter of Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Woolf) and up to age 17 believed Clive Bell to be her father. Her biological father, however, was actually the artist Duncan Grant, widely seen as the prototype for Loerke in Women in Love. At age 23 she married David Garnett, a former lover of Grant's and over twenty-six years her senior. David ("Bunny" to the Lawrences and other friends) was the son of Edward and Constance Garnett, who both played important roles in Lawrence's life--Edward Garnett was instrumental in seeing Sons and Lovers published. Their marriage eventually ended in divorce, Angelica realizing that Garnett had most likely married her as a way of maintaining a hold over Grant and over Vanessa Bell, whom he had earlier unsuccessfully tried to seduce. Angelica Garnett's memoir, Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood, describes her family's many entanglements, such complicated relationships being typical, of course, of the Bloomsbury in which she grew up in the early twentieth century.

Barney Rosset

Barney Rosset, who died in February at age 89, as editor of Grove Press led the successful legal battle to publish an unexpurgated edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1959, as well as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. His crusade led to the federal court decision establishing the standard of "redeeming social or literary value" as a defense against obscenity charges, thus opening the door to the publication of many works that have since become part of the literary canon.

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Publication:	D.H. Lawrence Review
Article Type:	In memoriam
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Date:	Mar 22, 2012
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