In mid-April 1921 he and Frieda left Sicily to go north, this year before the heat really struck; in Capri they met an American couple, Earl (1878-1957) and Achsah (1878-1945) Brewster, who would be good friends to them for the rest of the decade. And in Germany, where he had gone with Frieda on her visit to her mother, writing away in the woods, Lawrence at last managed to finish Aaron's Rod, the novel he had been struggling with since the winter of 1917.After their time in Germany, he and Frieda went to visit her sister Johanna in Austria.This was a visit that provided the background for the second part of Lawrence's short novel "The Captain's Doll," .Once again, he was convinced that America was his land of the future. He was "tired of Europe. There seems no hope in it" .During the autumn and winter of 1921 he made continual enquiries about places to live in America; and a letter from the American society hostess and patron of the arts Mabel Dodge Sterne (1879-1962), inviting him to Taos in New Mexico, effectively settled the matter. That was where he would go first, at any rate. But committing himself to America - something he had been trying to do for six or seven years - was not as easy as it had looked: he had a strong sense that America would be barbaric and that he would hate it. Even Taos had a colony of artists - "Evil everywhere. But I want to go - to try"
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