• David Herbert Lawrence was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the early 20th Century. Two of his most well known novels are Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sons and Lovers.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: September 11, 1885
  2. Birthplace: Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England
  3. Died: March 2, 1930
  4. Location: Vence, France
  5. Literary genre: Modernism
  6. Writing period: 1907—1930
  7. Died from tuberculosis complications
  8. Eloped with a former professor's wife
  9. Lady Chatterley's Lover wasn't printed in the United Kingdom until 1960
  10. He and his wife were accused of spying during WWI

• Career

  Lawrence spent the majority of his career traveling the world. His first experience came after eloping with his lifelong companion and wife of his former modern languages professor, Frieda Weekley. The two traveled to Germany and then along the alps into Italy. During WWI he and his wife moved to England where they were viewed with suspicion for her German heritage and lived in near destitution. During this time he wrote The Rainbow and its sequel Women in Love. Following the war, the Lawrences set off on what D.H. termed his 'savage pilgrimage', voluntarily exiling themselves from Britain and traveling the world. During this time he wrote profusely and established himself as one of the finest travel writers of his time. In March 1925 he suffered a near fatal attack of malaria and tuberculosis while visiting Mexico and was forced to settle down in Italy with his wife. During this time he wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover while slowly deteriorating from complications arising from tuberculosis. He eventually succumbed to the disease in 1930.

• Notable Works

  • Sons and Lovers (1913)
  • The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (1914)
  • The Rainbow (1915)
  • Women in Love (1920)
  • Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923)
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
  • The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories (1930)

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  E.M. Forster | Modernism | Sons and Lovers | The Rainbow | World War I | T.S. Eliot | Sigmund Freud | James Joyce | Virginia Woolf | Ezra Pound | Tennessee Williams | Dylan Thomas | Herman Melville | Anthony Burgess

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