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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.
Connections
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| Literary responses | Constance Garnett | Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence
, a friend of her husband
's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,... |
| Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Edward Garnett
, the reader for Cape
, thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence
's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this... |
| Literary responses | Nell Dunn | According to Margaret Drabble
, this book was, like its predecessor, another succès de scandale. It was also one of the first post-Chatterley books . . . to treat women's sexuality as though it were... |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Brett | Lawrence
, to whom she sent a copy, thought the experiences described were unremarkable. |
| Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS
said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 85 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Carswell | The Camomile did not garner the attention CC
's first novel received. Reviews were various, even contradictory, some asserting that it was better than Open the Door! and some that it was not so good... |
| Literary responses | Christina Stead | Again the Times Literary Supplement review was by R. D. Charques
, though again he found nothing good to say. He repeated most of his usual points: this was a wholly disappointing performance from an... |
| Literary responses | Mary Butts | The first edition of Ashe of Rings was not extensively reviewed. Although an unimpressed reviewer for the Liverpool Courier characterised it as another bad case of Futurism (like the writing of James Joyce
and Dorothy Richardson |
| Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Orlando set a new level in VW
's public reputation. The usual polarization of reviews was represented by J. C. Squire
in The Observer calling it a very pleasant trifle that would entertain the drawing-rooms... |
| Literary responses | Eleanor Farjeon | D. H. Lawrence
thought her a real poet, but criticised her for refusing to fight things out to their last issue. . . . [Y]ou never burn yours to the last fire. . .... |
| Literary responses | Christina Stead | After its appearance in England this book was reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement by Anthony Samuel Curtis
, together with a recent reprint of For Love Alone. Curtis judged that two novels shared... |
| Literary responses | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Bertrand Russell
exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press. 312 Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. |
| Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | The implications of homosexual paedophilia (whose existence Dell was almost certainly unaware of) caused merriment rather than scandal. Rebecca West
published in the New Statesman a few years later an article entitled The Posh Horse... |
| Literary responses | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
| Literary responses | Viola Meynell | D. H. Lawrence
, when he saw the first chapter of this book, said it was better than anything [VM
had] done. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen. 150 |
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