Lawrences

The Lawrences are a distinguished clan: they are descendants of Sir Robert Lawrence of England, who was one of King Richard the Lionheart's Crusaders.

Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Caretaker of God's Garden Nancy Ruhling 2011

The convictions of Dobson and Norris are a far better outcome for the Lawrences and for Britain than their acquittal would have been.

Stephen Lawrence: A generation of shame | Editorial 2012

Compared to other countries, the strength of American higher ed has been its institutional diversity: our state colleges, our community colleges, our Catholic colleges, our Harvards, our Hillsdales, and yes, our Sarah Lawrences.

When Big Government Goes to College William McGurn 2011

But as long as culture, stigma and cost interfere with how we tackle the very real problems people face, there will continue to be Rebekah Lawrences … and there will continue to be sweet, trusting people who have been pushed beyond endurance and who finally put their lives in the grasp of unfeeling raptors concerned with only self-serving ends, whether it be godhood, entertainment, or money.

2009 August — Fusion Despatches 2009

But as long as culture, stigma and cost interfere with how we tackle the very real problems people face, there will continue to be Rebekah Lawrences … and there will continue to be sweet, trusting people who have been pushed beyond endurance and who finally put their lives in the grasp of unfeeling raptors concerned with only self-serving ends, whether it be godhood, entertainment, or money.

Something to chew on for a while…. — Fusion Despatches 2009

She can file it, perhaps, alongside his earlier comments, when he accused the Macpherson inquiry – which detailed those police failures, and was hard won and much prized by the Lawrences – of causing "hysteria".

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

Brett was slow in replying and the Lawrences 'accusations soon turned to abuse.

Lawrence, a letter and me 2010

In 1929, living in Italy again, the Lawrences learned that their friend Dorothy Brett (who was still in Taos) had sold a manuscript – they became convinced that she was going to flog off the rest of the contents of a cupboard at the ranch.

Lawrence, a letter and me 2010

After Frieda gave Mabel Dodge Luhan the manuscript of Sons and Lovers in exchange for the ranch near Taos in New Mexico where the Lawrences lived – off and on – from 1922 to 1925, she heard that, whereas the ranch was worth a thousand dollars, the manuscript "was worth at least $50,000, at least!"

Lawrence, a letter and me 2010

The other, written on both sides of a single sheet of paper, signed "Auf Wiedersehen, then, DHL", was dated 10 January 1927 when the Lawrences were living at the Villa Mirenda, near Florence.

Lawrence, a letter and me 2010