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.
D. H. Lawrence, passport photograph (therefore straight-on head and shoulders), 24 February 1929. He is unsmiling, and his jacket, tie, beard and moustache are conspicuously neat.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Viola Meynell
D. H. Lawrence , when he saw the first chapter of this book, said it was better than anything [VM had] done.
qtd. in
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
150
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...
Literary responses Lady Cynthia Asquith
Robin Hone , reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence
Literary responses Constance Garnett
Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence , a friend of her husband 's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,...
Literary responses Ethel Lilian Voynich
Bertrand Russell exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press, 2014.
312
Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. 25 Jan. 2017.
Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...
Literary responses Christina Stead
Again the Times Literary Supplement review was by R. D. Charques , though again he found nothing good to say. He repeated most of his usual points: this was a wholly disappointing performance from an...
Literary responses Christina Stead
After its appearance in England this book was reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement by Anthony Samuel Curtis , together with a recent reprint of For Love Alone. Curtis judged that two novels shared...
Literary responses Nell Dunn
According to Margaret Drabble , this book was, like its predecessor, another succès de scandale. It was also one of the first post-Chatterley books . . . to treat women's sexuality as though it were...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Orlando set a new level in VW 's public reputation. The usual polarization of reviews was represented by J. C. Squire in The Observer calling it a very pleasant trifle that would entertain the drawing-rooms...
Literary responses Olivia Manning
Edward Garnett , the reader for Cape , thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence 's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this...
Literary responses Dorothy Brett
Lawrence , to whom she sent a copy, thought the experiences described were unremarkable.
qtd. in
Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts, 1985.
197
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...
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
Literary responses Eleanor Farjeon
D. H. Lawrence thought her a real poet, but criticised her for refusing to fight things out to their last issue. . . . [Y]ou never burn yours to the last fire. . ....
Literary responses Sheila Kaye-Smith
This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life.
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980.
85
The Times Literary Supplement notice began: No matter what fine work...

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