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.
Lawrence and Brett, DB
's only published book, was released to the American public, to join an ever-growing canon of memoirs concerning the lately departed D. H. Lawrence
.
Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts.
219-20
Textual Production
Dorothy Brett
DB
, having refused to participate in a festival marking forty years since the death of D. H. Lawrence, drafted the one of several supplements to her account in Lawrence and Brett of her time...
Author summary
Dorothy Brett
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...
Friends, Associates
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.
39-40
On the whole, however, she did not pursue literary friendships in the USA. She continued her...
Friends, Associates
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...
Textual Production
Dorothy Brett
Like most of her circle DB
was an energetic letter-writer. In 1931 she made a will leaving all of her papers and Lawrence
's in her possession to Alfred Stieglitz
and Georgia O'Keeffe
, but...
Textual Production
Dorothy Brett
On 2 March 1930, when Lawrence
died in France, Brett was in New York City mourning her father's death little more than a month earlier and hoping to receive more positive news of Lawrence's condition...
Literary responses
Dorothy Brett
Lawrence
, to whom she sent a copy, thought the experiences described were unremarkable.
Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts.
197
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
Reception
A. S. Byatt
In her introduction for VintageASB
has written of influences on this novel: the visual influence of Samuel Palmer
's painting Cornfield with the Evening Star and of other representations of moonlight and harvest fields...
Textual Production
Rosa Nouchette Carey
The title of RNC
's novel "But Men Must Work", issued this year, refers (like other titles of hers) to gender roles: it is from Charles Kingsley
's The Three Fishers: For men...
