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
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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 descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | CC
published a second biography, The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence. After brisk early sales, charges that it was libellous caused her publisher, Chatto and Windus
, to remove it from the market. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald. 142 Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, p. v - xxxv. xxv Carswell, Catherine. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers. Editor Carswell, John, Secker and Warburg. 204-6 |
| Author summary | Catherine Carswell | CC
is best known for her 1920 novel, Open the Door!, and her insightful critical biography of her close friend D. H. Lawrence
. Her literary corpus consists of two novels, three biographies, and... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | She continued reviewing after the Great War. She struck an enduring relationship with the Manchester Guardian (though she often had to write for its Women's Corner on topics like cosmetics). She reviewed Lawrence
's play... |
| 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 |
| 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. 38 , No. 21, pp. 7-14. 8 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
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