Maureen Duffy: Author, poet, playwright. http://www.maureenduffy.co.uk/.
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
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maureen Duffy | From Methuen's first-published author, Edna Lyall
, she traces the firm's dealings with other progressive activists, with canonical names in many genres including books for children, and with such controversial figures as Ibsen
, Wilde
, and Lawrence
. |
Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | MD
published a novel, The Dark Flood Rises, whose theme is the prospect of old age and death, though its title comes from a poem by D. H. Lawrence
, who did not live... |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | The opening instalment of AD
's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence
's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 245 Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press. 95 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 90 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agatha Christie | Around 1910, recovering from influenza, AC
wrote an occult story about dreams and delirium entitled The House of Beauty; it was influenced by the work of D. H. Lawrence
. She sent the story... |
Textual Production | Angela Carter | After AC
's death, in 1997, there appeared Shaking a Leg, a volume which collects her essays and journalism (including Lorenzo the Closet Queen, also titled The Naked Lawrence, the fruit of a lifelong love-hate relationship). Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 21, pp. 7-14. 8 |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | CC
published in the Glasgow Herald a favourable review of D. H. Lawrence
's The Rainbow. Though its praise was less unqualified than that she had given The White Peacock in 1911, it got... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Carswell | On a brief visit to Tregerthen near Zennor in Cornwall with D. H. Lawrence and his wife
, CC
worked closely with Lawrence
on their respective novel manuscripts. Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Open the Door!, Virago, p. v - xvii. xii Carswell, Catherine. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge University Press. 59, 76-8 |
Dedications | Catherine Carswell | Parts of CC
's critical biography The Life of Robert Burns (published this month and dedicated to her husband, Donald Carswell
, and to D. H. Lawrence
) were serialised in the GlasgowDaily Record... |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | CC
published a second biography, The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence. After brisk early sales, charges that it was libellous caused her publisher, Chatto and Windus
, to remove it from the market. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald. 142 Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, p. v - xxxv. xxv Carswell, Catherine. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers. Editor Carswell, John, Secker and Warburg. 204-6 |
Author summary | Catherine Carswell | CC
is best known for her 1920 novel, Open the Door!, and her insightful critical biography of her close friend D. H. Lawrence
. Her literary corpus consists of two novels, three biographies, and... |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | She continued reviewing after the Great War. She struck an enduring relationship with the Manchester Guardian (though she often had to write for its Women's Corner on topics like cosmetics). She reviewed Lawrence
's play... |
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