They had come back to Europe for very different reasons than those which had brought them back in 1923. Then, Frieda had wanted to see her family, Lawrence had come most reluctantly to join her and had gone for as short a time to the Midlands as possible. This time, obliged to leave the USA, it was Lawrence who wanted to come as much as Frieda: and it was England he wanted to see - "one's native land has a sort of hopeless attraction, when one is away" (Letters V: 312). He had not been back since his father had died, and he wanted to see his sisters.After a week in a London hotel, Lawrence and Frieda spent nearly a fortnight in the Midlands ), and then another week in London, before travelling on to see Frieda's mother. Both England and the Midlands, however, depressed him thoroughly - he was in bed with a cold as soon as he reached Nottingham, complaining how "the weather's awful and we simply hate it up here" (Letters V: 316). Their original plan of staying for a month or so, so that Frieda could see her children, quickly turned into a decision to go south: first to Germany, and then back to Italy.
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