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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 .
Maureen Duffy: Author, poet, playwright. http://www.maureenduffy.co.uk/.
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.
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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
It is structured as a four...
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.
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, No. 21, pp. 7-14.
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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Carswell
Catherine Jackson (later CC ) met D. H. Lawrence after his return to England from Italy. They soon became close friends.
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, p. v - xxxv.
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Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Open the Door!, Virago, p. v - xvii.
x
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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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...

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