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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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 Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | Few of CC
's poems survive, but in 1916 she was regularly sending poetry to Lawrence
for critique. She was clearly choosing bleak material: his comments use the word stark three times in two sentences... |
| Reception | Catherine Carswell | According to CC
's son, this was the first time a first novel had won the Melrose Prize. She offered half the prize money of £250 to her friend and literary mentor D. H. Lawrence |
| 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”. 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. 117 |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | DC
met D. H. Lawrence
, Frieda Lawrence
, and David Garnett
at the home of another writer, Gilbert Cannan
: Cholesbury Manor House in Cholesbury, where she was a guest with Mark Gertler
. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 58-9 |
| Fictionalization | Dora Carrington | D. H. Lawrence
, an acquaintance but never a friend of Carrington, figures her as a gang-raped aesthete Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. xv, xvii |
| Textual Production | Rosa Nouchette Carey | The title of RNC
's novel "But Men Must Work", issued this year, refers (like other titles of hers) to gender roles: it is from Charles Kingsley
's The Three Fishers: For men... |
| Reception | A. S. Byatt | In her introduction for VintageASB
has written of influences on this novel: the visual influence of Samuel Palmer
's painting Cornfield with the Evening Star and of other representations of moonlight and harvest fields... |
| Literary responses | Mary Butts | The first edition of Ashe of Rings was not extensively reviewed. Although an unimpressed reviewer for the Liverpool Courier characterised it as another bad case of Futurism (like the writing of James Joyce
and Dorothy Richardson |
| Author summary | Dorothy Brett | DB
, or Brett as she called herself, is chiefly remembered for the pictures she painted, first in London and then in Taos, New Mexico, in the first half of the twentieth century. Her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | Although her first meeting with D. H. Lawrence
in 1915 was, according to DB
, inauspicious, she later became his admiring friend. Brett, Dorothy. Lawrence and Brett. J. B. Lippincott Company. 16 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | Travelling to Taos the first time in Lawrence's
company, Brett had met Willa Cather
and Harriet Monroe
. Brett, Dorothy. Lawrence and Brett. J. B. Lippincott Company. 39-40 |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | Her companion in her later years was John Manchester
, a Jungian, a painter, and an occasionally suicidal schizophrenic, who moved into the house next door in Taos in spring 1963, when she was eighty... |
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