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.
RW
requested the meeting because she admired Nin's work on D. H. Lawrence
. The two women became good friends.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
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Lady Cynthia Asquith
As well as her close relationships with Angela Thirkell
and Barrie
, LCA
built a significant friendship with the novelist D. H. Lawrence
(who has been seen as drawing her portrait in The Blind Man...
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Viola Meynell
D. H. Lawrence
finished writing his novel The Rainbow at Shed Hall, VM
's cottage at Humphrey's Homestead, Greatham; she helped him type the manuscript.
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Vernon Lee
Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...
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Viola Meynell
VM
met Lawrence
through Ivy Low
. Enthusiastic about his writing, she offered to lend him her cottage and to do his typing. During his stay on the Meynells' property, Lawrence introduced Viola to Ottoline Morrell
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. The Garnetts: A Literary Family. University of Texas, –Dec. 1959.
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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, 1933.
39-40
On the whole, however, she did not pursue literary friendships in the USA. She continued her...
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Virginia Woolf
Later, however, Bloomsbury was attacked as an arrogant, self-regarding, immoral, upper-class clique. D. H. Lawrence
said Keynes and his friends were black beetles, and in Women in Love he attacked the group's aesthetic in...
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Ling Shuhua
The couple travelled together: in January 1936, for instance, they went to Beijing, where they met such people as the English writer Harold Acton
and Chinese watercolour artist Qi Baishi
. LS read fiction...
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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...
During the process of recovery, she was reconciled with her former friend D. H. Lawrence
(who was by now seriously ill with tuberculosis), from whom she had been estranged following his unflattering fictional portrait of...
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Eleanor Farjeon
Back in London she acquired a circle of largely musical friends, many of them later well-known names, including Myra Hess
and Clifford
and Arnold Bax
. Later this circle expanded to include literary people: Viola Meynell
Timeline
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Texts
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.
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.
