ABSTRACT
D. H. Lawrence, as is well known, esteemed Mark Rutherford highly. He wrote to A. W. McLeod in 1912:
I've read the Revolution in Tanner's Lane, and find myself fearfully fond of Rutherford. I used to think him dull, but now I see he is so just and plucky and sound – and yes, perhaps I like his dullness – when one lives in a whirl of melodrama, as I seem to do just now, one is glad of a glass of good porter, like Rutherford.
