Lot Essay
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).