Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol.
new series 6
, pp. 63-8. 64
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
| Education | Ann Quin | Yet at this time books discovered in the public library taught her the possibilities in writing: Greek and Elizabethan dramatists. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Quin | In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ
mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself. |
| Education | Harold Pinter | Books borrowed from Hackney Public Library
were also important to HP
's education: the moderns (Woolf
, Lawrence
, Hemingway
, Eliot
), and also Dostoyevsky
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Features | Winifred Peck | The story opens with a young man returning from the First World War and ends with young people returning from the second. At the outset seventeen-year-old Miranda Rae, living in Devon with her family, receives... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen Nott | KN
approvingly cites Mary Warnock
for discerning and hailing a tendency among moral philosophers to address the complexities of actual choice, and actual decisions, thus making moral philosophy more difficult, perhaps much more embarrassing... |
| Occupation | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | His attention to questions of power and representation helped spawn poststructuralist theory. His unregenerate misogyny—expressed in contempt for little bluestockings Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin. 79 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin. 80 |
| Cultural formation | Jan Morris | JM
's paternal ancestors were Welsh working people; her maternal ones were English country gentry. Morris, Jan. Conundrum. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . 5 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Along with its owners, the manor was frequently full of guests: writers and artists among them included Katherine Mansfield
, D. H. Lawrence
, Aldous Huxley
, Siegfried Sassoon
, W. B. Yeats
, and... |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 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... |
| Textual Production | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925. Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux. 316, 345 |
| Fictionalization | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
inspired a number of fictional creations by her associates. D. H. Lawrence
drew a hostile portrait of her as Hermione Roddice in Women in Love (1920). She reappears as Priscilla Wimbush in Aldous Huxley |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
(What's past is Prologue) and Cicero
(That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co. prelims |
| Residence | Alice Meynell | The house stood on enough land for Wilfrid Meynell to build houses for his grown-up children to occupy when they came to visit. Other visitors included D. H. Lawrence
, who wrote The Rainbow while... |
| Friends, Associates | 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. 145 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
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