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.

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Occupation Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
His attention to questions of power and representation helped spawn poststructuralist theory. His unregenerate misogyny—expressed in contempt for little bluestockings
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin.
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like George Eliot , for George Sand as a prolific writing-cow,
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin.
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and...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
In November 1915, after Joyce 's novel had been rejected by various publishers, HSW offered to publish it. But it was difficult for her to find a printer who was not frightened by the prospect...
Occupation Frances Horovitz
Patrick Magee , Harvey Hall , Stevie Smith , Hugh Dickson , and Basil Jones were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats , D. H. Lawrence
Occupation Catherine Carswell
D. H. Lawrence asked CC to coordinate the remaining typing of Lady Chatterley's Lover after his friend Nellie Morrison removed herself from the project (the book's indecency was liable to put typists off).
Lawrence, D. H. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. Editors Boulton, James T. et al., Cambridge University Press.
6: 259-60
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald.
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Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce , focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in...
Literary responses Lady Cynthia Asquith
D. H. Lawrence blamed LCA 's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries.
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
127
Once they were published, Roger Fulford in the Times Literary Supplement anticipated that the upper-class lifestyle depicted in the diaries might...
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
Literary responses Constance Garnett
Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence , a friend of her husband 's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,...
Literary responses Olivia Manning
Edward Garnett , the reader for Cape , thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence 's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this...
Literary responses Nell Dunn
According to Margaret Drabble , this book was, like its predecessor, another succès de scandale. It was also one of the first post-Chatterley books . . . to treat women's sexuality as though it were...
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 Sheila Kaye-Smith
This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life.
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
85
The Times Literary Supplement notice began: No matter what fine work...
Literary responses Christina Stead
Again the Times Literary Supplement review was by R. D. Charques , though again he found nothing good to say. He repeated most of his usual points: this was a wholly disappointing performance from an...
Literary responses Catherine Carswell
The Camomile did not garner the attention CC 's first novel received. Reviews were various, even contradictory, some asserting that it was better than Open the Door! and some that it was not so good...
Literary responses Christina Stead
After its appearance in England this book was reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement by Anthony Samuel Curtis , together with a recent reprint of For Love Alone. Curtis judged that two novels shared...

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