Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
D. H. Lawrence
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Standard Name: Lawrence, D. H.
Used Form: David Herbert Lawrence
DHL
published prolifically between 1909 and his death in 1930: poetry, novels, short stories, travel literature, and social comment. He was always a controversialist, fighting against the machanizing, dehumanizing, desexualizing tendencies of modern life, and was also a playwright and a painter.
The couple travelled together: in January 1936, for instance, they went to Beijing, where they met such people as the English writer Harold Acton
and Chinese watercolour artist Qi Baishi
. LS read fiction...
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. The Garnetts: A Literary Family. University of Texas.
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Lady Ottoline Morrell
During the process of recovery, she was reconciled with her former friend D. H. Lawrence
(who was by now seriously ill with tuberculosis), from whom she had been estranged following his unflattering fictional portrait of...
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Dorothy Brett
Travelling to Taos the first time in Lawrence's
company, Brett had met Willa Cather
and Harriet Monroe
.
Brett, Dorothy. Lawrence and Brett. J. B. Lippincott Company.
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On the whole, however, she did not pursue literary friendships in the USA. She continued her...
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Anna Wickham
AW
was a good friend of D. H. Lawrence
. She went for many long and preoccupied
Newlin, Margaret. “Anna Wickham: ’The sexless part which is my mind’”. Southern Review, Vol.
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, pp. 281-02.
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walks on Hampstead Heath with him, and felt that their communion was profound and exceedingly serious.
By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
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Dorothy Brett
Her companion in her later years was John Manchester
, a Jungian, a painter, and an occasionally suicidal schizophrenic, who moved into the house next door in Taos in spring 1963, when she was eighty...
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Aldous Huxley
Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones,
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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Katherine Mansfield
The same year she got to know Edward Marsh
. Her early years with Murry (and her visits to Garsington Manor) further developed her network of relationships with writers and artists. At Runcton in 1912...
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Nina Hamnett
The following year NH
met Anna Wickham
, who took her in when she had flu, with a dangerously high temperature, and did not want to go back to her family. At that time NH
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Virginia Woolf
Later, however, Bloomsbury was attacked as an arrogant, self-regarding, immoral, upper-class clique. D. H. Lawrence
said Keynes and his friends were black beetles, and in Women in Love he attacked the group's aesthetic in...
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Texts
Lawrence, D. H. The Trespasser. Mr. Secker, 1912.
Lawrence, D. H. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, 1930.
Lawrence, D. H. The White Peacock. Duffield, 1911.
Lawrence, D. H. The Woman Who Rode Away, and Other Stories. William Heinemann, 1928.
Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love. Privately printed for subscribers only, 1920.