''Mornings in Mexico'' is a collection of travel essays by
D. H. Lawrence, first published by
Martin Secker
Martin Secker (6 April 1882 – 6 April 1978), born Percy Martin Secker Klingender, was a London publisher who was responsible for producing the work of a distinguished group of literary authors, including D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Norman Doug ...
in 1927. These brief works display Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the 'spirit of place' in his own vivid manner.
Lawrence wrote the first four of these essays at the same time as he was completing and revising his Mexican novel ''
The Plumed Serpent'' (1926). Three of the others, about
Puebloans
The Puebloans or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Currently 100 pueblos are actively inhabited, among which Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Z ...
, were written earlier in 1924 in New Mexico, and the final piece "A Little Moonshine with Lemon" came later as Lawrence remembered his New Mexico ranch (Kiowa Ranch) from Italy. The Cambridge Edition, ''Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays'' edited by Virginia Crosswhite Hyde (2009), adds an additional twelve essays, most of them concerning American Southwestern peoples and places.
The eight essays in the original volume are:
* "Corasmin and the Parrots"
* "Walk to Huayapa"
* "The Mozo"
* "Market Day"
* "Indians and Entertainment"
* "Dance of the Sprouting Corn"
* "The Hopi Snake Dance"
* "A Little Moonshine with Lemon".
External links
* Full text of
Mornings in Mexico' at the Internet Archive
Books by D. H. Lawrence
1927 non-fiction books
Essay collections
Martin Secker books
British travel books
English non-fiction books
Books about Mexico
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