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.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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Mary Agnes Hamilton
One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
74
MAH
credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...
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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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Katherine Mansfield
The same year she got to know Edward Marsh
. Her early years with Murry (and her visits to Garsington Manor) further developed her network of relationships with writers and artists. At Runcton in 1912...
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Nina Hamnett
The following year NH
met Anna Wickham
, who took her in when she had flu, with a dangerously high temperature, and did not want to go back to her family. At that time NH
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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
Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin.
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Dorothy Brett
DB
paid her first visit to Lady Ottoline Morrell
's house at Garsington after meeting her in February of that year; October was also the month which saw her first meeting with D. H.
and...
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
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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.
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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
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Rebecca West
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.
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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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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.