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83 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1924
“One day Lawrence asked Catherine [Carswell] if she was writing anything, and she told him of a novel she had in mind: ‘The theme had been suggested to me by reading of some savages who took a baby girl, and that they might turn her into a goddess for themselves […]'”— From the introduction by Keith Sagar.The germ of the idea that his friend Catherine gave Lawrence in London at the end of 1923 became transmogrified by his experiences in New Mexico, was completed in 1924 and published in 1925. By this time it had become a tale of two moods with an ending of sorts, made up of dry history, ravishing descriptions, and genuine suspense.
‘You peel everything away from people, and there is a green, upright demon in every man and woman; and this demon is a man’s real self, and a woman’s real self.'When the Princess is in her late thirties, though looking ten years younger, she inspires wonder in many but also deep inexplicable dislike in others. And when her father eventually dies, she and her younger American companion Miss Cummins take themselves off to a ranch in the north of New Mexico between the desert and the foothills near the Rio Grande.