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 Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Violet Hunt
Hunt inherited fears of poverty from her father . She once observed: I did . . . hate insolvency . . . . The idea of debt stands at my bedside like a spectre.
Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright.
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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...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dorothy Brett
She now described two unsuccessful sexual encounters with Lawrence , after he told her that any relationship must include a sexual relationship. So there we lay. I felt desperate; all the love I had for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press.
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living writers into two...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eleanor Farjeon
EF prints here the letters written to her by Thomas, whom she loved (though he did not return her love), and who was killed in the First World War. She provides a vivid context for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Q. D. Leavis
Responding to recent charges that Brontë 's novel is stylistically flawed, incoherent in intention, and excessively melodramatic and violent, QDL argues that the text, although not a seamless work of art, belongs, along with Tolstoy
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rebecca West
West comments on the public reaction to Lawrence 's death, lamenting that he was not sufficently honoured by his peers. She praises his literary genius, and pronounces his life a spiritual victory.
West, Rebecca. D.H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, http://UofA.
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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 .
Maureen Duffy: Author, poet, playwright. http://www.maureenduffy.co.uk/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text W. H. Auden
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Amabel Williams-Ellis
Williams-Ellis divided her text into five sections according to audience, respectively written For All, For Philosophers, For Missionaries, For Critics, and For Readers. The last section consists of short studies...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kathleen Nott
KN approvingly cites Mary Warnock for discerning and hailing a tendency among moral philosophers to address the complexities of actual choice, and actual decisions, thus making moral philosophy more difficult, perhaps much more embarrassing...
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...
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.
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Timeline

1883: George Moore, already a disciple of Zola,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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.
Lawrence, D. H. The Rainbow. Methuen, 1915.