ABSTRACT
Although with the publication of St. Mawr in 1925 Lawrence completed his major fiction about Australia, he continued to engage with Australia and Australians in a range of works and letters throughout the last five years of his life, until two weeks before his death on 2 March 1930. In Lawrence’s late writings there is evidence that he was still attracted to the regenerative potential of Australia, praising the energy of Australians and the beauty of the bush. Nevertheless, Lawrence remained disappointed with the reality of modern Australia.
