D. H. Lawrence

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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.

Milestones

11 September 1885
David Herbert Lawrence , English novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and painter, was born in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, a miner's son.
Bullock, Alan, Robert Bertram Woodings, and John Cummings, editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins, 1983.
February 1913
DHL published his first volume of poetry, Love Poems, and Others.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis, 1963.
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May 1913
DHL published an autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers, focussing on relations of a young man (Paul Morel), his lover (Miriam Leivers), and his mother (Gertrude Morel).
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis, 1963.
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July 1928
DHL 's controversial novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was privately printed by Giuseppe Orioli in Florence, Italy.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis, 1963.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Summer 1928
Fearing police raids, several English booksellers cancelled their orders for DHL 's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis, 1963.
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2 March 1930
DHL , English author, died of tuberculosis at Vence in France, at the age of forty-four, the day after discharging himself from the local sanatorium.
Bullock, Alan, Robert Bertram Woodings, and John Cummings, editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins, 1983.
20 October 1960
The trial regarding obscenity charges against DHL 's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Regina v. Penguin Books Limited , began at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Lady Chatterley’s Lover</span> Trial. Bodley Head, 1990.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Parkes, Adam. Modernism and the Theatre of Censorship. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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10 November 1960
Penguin released an edition of 200,000 copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover to the public; the novel by DHL had been banned in England for more than thirty years.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Biography

Birth and Background

11 September 1885
David Herbert Lawrence , English novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and painter, was born in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, a miner's son.
Bullock, Alan, Robert Bertram Woodings, and John Cummings, editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins, 1983.

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