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Catalogue of the T. E. Lawrence Centenary Exhibition
held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1988-9

Lawrence of Arabia


 

49. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD YEA-AND-NAY

By Maurice Hewlett, London, 1900

During his undergraduate years Lawrence formed a taste for romantic literature about the medieval world. One book he particularly enjoyed was this historical novel by Maurice Hewlett about Richard Coeur de Lion. In the spring of 1912 Lawrence took a copy with him to Kafr Ammar in Egypt where he worked for several weeks under Flinders Petrie. Afterwards he wrote home: 'Read Yea and Nay in Egypt for the ninth time. It is a masterpiece.'1

J. M. Wilson

1. T. E. Lawrence to his family, 20.2.1912, HL p.193.

Printed book, 42 pp., 19.7

 

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From the catalogue compiled by Jeremy Wilson and others for the T. E. Lawrence Centenary Exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1988-9. Printed edition (National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1988) Copyright © N. Helari Ltd 1988. Web edition Copyright © J & N Wilson 1998. T.E. Lawrence Studies - www.telawrence.info - is edited by Jeremy Wilson. Its costs are sponsored by Castle Hill Press