T. E. Lawrence discovery in "The Times", Lawrence followed Malory scholar Eugene Vinaver from Manchester to Winchester by motorcycle. At the age of 46, two months after leaving military service, Lawrence was fatally injured in an accident on his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle in Dorset, close to his cottage, Clouds Hill, near Wareham. A dip in the road obstructed his view of two boys on their bicycles; he swerved to avoid them, lost control, and was thrown over the handlebars. He died six days later on 19 May 1935. The location is marked by a small memorial at the side of the road.
When Washington Was in Vogue a light-skinned man who elects not to pass for white, and throughout the novel he and other characters discuss the tendencies of many African-American men (of any shade) to prefer women of lighter skin tones. Davy himself is quite open-minded when it comes to female beauty, and often takes the time to describe his various attractive friends to Bob. Significantly, Caroline is the darkest of Davy’s female friends, thus making his choice of her as his romantic partner a transgression of the unspoken norms. The novel has been compared to Nella Larsen’s "Passing" as a significant literary exploration of the