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.
As well as her close relationships with Angela Thirkell
and Barrie
, LCA
built a significant friendship with the novelist D. H. Lawrence
(who has been seen as drawing her portrait in The Blind Man...
Literary responses
Lady Cynthia Asquith
D. H. Lawrence
blamed LCA
's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries.
Once they were published, Roger Fulford
in the Times Literary Supplement anticipated that the upper-class lifestyle depicted in the diaries might...
Textual Production
Lady Cynthia Asquith
For this volume D. H. Lawrence
wrote his well-known The Rocking-Horse Winner (after LCA
had turned down his Glad Ghosts because of its portrait of herself), about a child whose toy steed gives him the...
Literary responses
Lady Cynthia Asquith
Robin Hone
, reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence
It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka
Publishing
Beryl Bainbridge
In the early twenty-first century BB
was writing a regular column for the New Statesman, and contributing also to The Oldie. When the Tatler had a feature in which contemporary authors re-wrote the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Simone de Beauvoir
The second part of her first section, Facts and Myths, draws valuably on analysis of male writers. SB
reads Stendhal
as decidedly feministic:
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translator Parshley, H. M., Jonathan Cape.
255
he not only values liberty but accepts it as...
Travel
Sybille Bedford
Apart from the obscenity trial of Lawrence
's Lady Chatterley's Lover (which opened in London on 21 October 1960), SB
attended the trials at Frankfurt in 1963-5 of personnel from the Auschwitz prison camp (a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sybille Bedford
This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Bishop
The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB
's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker.
White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10.
DB
, or Brett as she called herself, is chiefly remembered for the pictures she painted, first in London and then in Taos, New Mexico, in the first half of the twentieth century. Her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Brett
Although her first meeting with D. H. Lawrence
in 1915 was, according to DB
, inauspicious, she later became his admiring friend.
Brett, Dorothy. Lawrence and Brett. J. B. Lippincott Company.
16
After joining in his abortive scheme for founding a utopian community in...
Travel
Dorothy Brett
In October of her first year at Taos she travelled to Mexico proper with Lawrence
and Frieda
(though she came back separately), and about a year later she travelled to Italy by way of London...
Timeline
1883: George Moore, already a disciple of Zola,...
Writing climate item
1883
George Moore
, already a disciple of Zola
, published his first, semi-autobiographicalnovel, A Modern Lover, in realist style.
April 1893: The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the...
Writing climate item
April 1893
The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the Fine and Applied Arts was founded this month by Charles Holme
and first edited by Cleeson White
.
From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...
Building item
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...
Writing climate item
4 December 1931
The BBC
announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson
, its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson
29 July 1959: The Obscene Publications Act (England), 1959,...
Writing climate item
29 July 1959
The Obscene Publications Act (England), 1959, replacing a predecessor of 1857, substantially modified its elements; it newly provided the defence of public good (which was held to include literary merit), and the use...
14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...
Building item
14 July 2006
The Bow Street Magistrates Court
, one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.
Texts
Lawrence, D. H. A Selection From <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Phoenix</span>. Editor Inglis, Anthony Angus Haig, Penguin, 1971.
Lawrence, D. H. Aaron’s Rod. T. Seltzer, 1922.
Lawrence, D. H. Apocalypse. G. Orioli, 1931.
Lawrence, D. H. D. H. Lawrence and New Mexico. Editor Sagar, Keith, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., 1982.
Lawrence, D. H. England, My England, and Other Stories. Martin Secker, 1924.
Lawrence, D. H. Fantasia of the Unconscious. T. Seltzer, 1922.
Lawrence, D. H. Kangaroo. T. Seltzer, 1923.
Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Privately printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928.
Lawrence, D. H. Last Poems. Orioli, 1932.
Lawrence, D. H. Love Poems, and Others. Duckworth and Co., 1913.
Lawrence, D. H. Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence. Editor McDonald, Edward D., Viking, 1936.
Lawrence, D. H. Pornography and Obscenity. Faber and Faber, 1929.
Lawrence, D. H. Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious. Thomas Seltzer, 1921.
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers. Heinemann, 1913.
Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923.
Lawrence, D. H., and Mary Louisa Skinner. The Boy in the Bush. T. Seltzer, 1924.
Lawrence, D. H. The Collected Poems of D. H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, 1928.
Lawrence, D. H. The Complete Plays of D.H. Lawrence. Heinemann, 1965.
Lawrence, D. H. The Escaped Cock. Black Sun Press, 1929.
Lawrence, D. H. The Ladybird; The Fox; The Captain’s Doll. M. Secker, 1923.
Lawrence, D. H. The Letters of D. H. Lawrence. Viking Press, 1932.
Lawrence, D. H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. Editors Boulton, James T. et al., Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Lawrence, D. H. The Lovely Lady, and Other Tales. Martin Secker, 1932.
Lawrence, D. H. The Prussian Officer, and other stories. Duckworth and Co., 1914.