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When Jessie visited Lawrence in London in November 1909 he introduced her to a woman he had ‘almost decided to marry’ (ET 164). This was Agnes Holt, a fellow-teacher two years older than him. Jessie thought Agnes ‘talked to Lawrence rather like an elder sister, and there was about him a curious air of bravado that [Jessie] always felt arose from lack of conviction’ (ET 168).The night before this meeting Lawrence gave Jessie the manuscript of A Collier's Friday Night and talked ‘very earnestly’ to her till two in the morning. He asked her what she hoped for in life, which reduced her to tears, and told her that he found the strain of life alone in London so hard to bear that he might ‘peg out’. He couldn't afford to marry, so had decided to ‘ask some girl if she will give me … that … without marriage.’ Did Jessie think that any girl would? She answered that she thought Lawrence wouldn't like the kind of girl who ‘would’. Then he asked her if she thought it wrong. Jessie answered with her habitual honesty:‘No, I wouldn't think it wrong. But all the girls I know would.’‘But you wouldn't?’ he insisted.‘Not wrong. But it would be very difficult.’He seemed to hang upon my words. (ET 167)This is one of many extraordinary exchanges that are recorded between Lawrence and Jessie. He had told her that he had no sexual feeling for her, that she was completely lacking in sexual attraction, that she was a nun who could play no part in physical love, yet he seemed to care what she thought and felt about this pressing question. If one read this exchange without any knowledge of its context one would think it was the prelude to a proposition to Jessie. But no. Lawrence went on: ‘Well, I think I shall ask her. Do you think she would?’ Jessie's searingly self-revealing answer was, ‘It depends how much she is in love with you’ (ET 167–68).In one of his affected letters to Blanche Jennings Lawrence wrote,I have got a new girl down here: you know my kind, a girl to whom I gas. She is very nice, and takes me seriously: which is unwisdom.

This idea of Jesus as a spiritual aristocrat had been aired years before, in [D H Lawrence]'s conversation with his then girlfriend Helen Corke. They had met when he was 25, and teaching at Davidson Road Boys' School, Croydon, between 1908 and 1911. Helen was three years older; she did not wish to be his lover in the fullest sense, being bisexual, and torn between her love for a male musician and an older, female teacher. Lawrence wrote his second novel, The Trespasser, about their unconsummated affair. Helen (one of her pupils at her primary school was Malcolm Muggeridge) had a number of crucial things to offer Lawrence. First, she recognised his genius. But she was no mere groupie. She had an intelligent imagination. She listened to the whole story of his upbringing in Eastwood, and of the passionate relationship with his mother; and how this overpowering relationship drove away his girlfriend Jessie Chambers. Helen befriended Jessie, and corresponded with her at length about Lawrence.

\"We're fortunate to be able to add some new entertainment to the day,\" said Helen Booth, director of the Jordan Historical Museum. \"This grant is just what we needed to add some new attractions to the festival.\" The dancers have been together for about 10 years, said [Aaron Bell], and one of their missions is \"education through entertainment.\" Even the name, Gonrah Desgohwah White Pine Dancers, said Bell, was used because the white pine is \"a sign of respect to people.\" He said the group is trying to \"create more understanding today so that there is less misunderstanding for our children tomorrow.\" \"We went for coffee one day and decided to write some songs together to make some money during the summer,\" recalls [Philip Corke]. \"It just blossomed from there.\"