Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
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Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert). 1885-1930.
British writer whose fiction concerns the struggle for human fulfillment within a dehumanizing industrialized society.
His novels include Sons and Lovers (
1913),
Women in Love (
1920),
and Lady Chatterley's Lover (
1928).
He also wrote literary criticism and psychoanalytical works.
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born Sept. 11, 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, Eng.
died March 2, 1930, Vence, France
English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist.
The son of a Midlands coal miner and an educated mother,
he began to write in 1905 and earned a teaching certificate in 1908.
Ford Madox Ford published much of Lawrence'
s early work in the English Review and helped place his first novel,
The White Peacock (
1911).
Lawrence often drew his themes from his own life and relationships.
Sons and Lovers (
1913)
is a clearly autobiographical novel about working-
class family life.
In 1914 he married a German woman,
Frieda Weekley.
The object of hostility and suspicion during World War I because of his pacifism and her origins,
the couple lived in various countries after 1919,
never returning to England.
The Rainbow (
1915)
and its sequel,
Women in Love (
1920),
trace the sickness of modern civilization to the effects of industrialization upon the human psyche.
Kangaroo (
1923)
describes the persecution he experienced during the war.
The Plumed Serpent (
1926)
was inspired by his fascination with Aztec culture.
Lawrence'
s writing is notable for its intensity and its erotic sensuality;
several of his works,
including Lady Chatterley's Lover (
1928),
were banned as obscene.
He died of the tuberculosis that had plagued him from an early age.
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Universalium.
2010.
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