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.
Bertrand Russell
exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press.
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Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR.
Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe
(Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...
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
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...
Textual Production
Githa Sowerby
Beecham
called the play a ferocious Geordie drama thick with dialect, diatribe and an unsparing depiction of the brutalities of the industrial north at the turn of the century.
Beecham, Richard, and Patricia Riley. “Foreword”. Looking for Githa, New Writing North.
As a tribute to institutions of shared literacy and collective engagement, many of the stories here involve reading within and through the public sphere. Two are dedicated to the friendship between D. H. Lawrence
and...
By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
Occupation
Naomi Royde-Smith
She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber.
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Mary Agnes Hamilton
wrote later: she was a wonderful editor, whose discoveries were endless.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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Her list of...
Textual Production
Martin Ross
Martin's brother James
had already published hunting stories.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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But it was J. B. Pinker
, one of the first literary agents in London, who told her and Somerville that he could easily place...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
When she finished the novel early in 1913, she showed it to Jack Beresford and a publisher. Neither of them was enthusiastic, so the manuscript was stored for some time. In January 1915, Beresford suggested...
Literary responses
Dorothy Richardson
The first reviewer, in the Sunday Observer, found DR
's narrative strategy extraordinary, but remarkably clear. He noted that her leaving the reader without explanations or apologies was not in the least troubling or...
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...
Homosexuals in British fiction had been portrayed mostly as sick, funny, or both since the Oscar Wilde
trials (1895). E. M. Forster
had kept his Maurice unpublished. Radclyffe Hall
had run into trouble. Virginia Woolf
Timeline
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Texts
Lawrence, D. H. The Trespasser. Mr. Secker, 1912.
Lawrence, D. H. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, 1930.
Lawrence, D. H. The White Peacock. Duffield, 1911.
Lawrence, D. H. The Woman Who Rode Away, and Other Stories. William Heinemann, 1928.
Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love. Privately printed for subscribers only, 1920.
