The Signature, London: by subscription, 4 October - 1 November 1915, numbers I-III [all published], small 8°, each issue limited to 250 copies, contains "The Little Governess" and "Autumns" by Matilda Berry [Katherine Mansfield], the other sole contributors were John Middleton Murry and D. H. Lawrence, with publishers' slip announcing the postponement of the further proposed 3 issues which were never published, original wrappers. [Kirkpatrick C82-84] (3)

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The Signature, London: by subscription, 4 October - 1 November 1915, numbers I-III [all published], small 8°, each issue limited to 250 copies, contains "The Little Governess" and "Autumns" by Matilda Berry [Katherine Mansfield], the other sole contributors were John Middleton Murry and D. H. Lawrence, with publishers' slip announcing the postponement of the further proposed 3 issues which were never published, original wrappers. [Kirkpatrick C82-84] (3)

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A FINE COPY. D. H. Lawrence was living at Hampstead, and the Murrys at 5 Acacia Road, St. John's Wood, when the Signature was launched as a fortnightly costing 2s 6d for six issues. However, the magazine folded when Katherine's life was irretrievably altered by the death of her brother, Leslie Beauchamp, on an army firing range near Armentières, and the publication of Lawrence's new novel, The Rainbow, provoked such hostile criticism that he resolved to escape with Frieda to Florida. "Feeling between the two couples were a tangle of loyalties and dislikes as the Murry's got ready to leave for France, abandoning Lawrence to his misery over The Rainbow and the failure of the Signature, which only ran to three issues" (Alpers Life, p. 184).

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