Maureen Duffy: Author, poet, playwright. http://www.maureenduffy.co.uk/.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maureen Duffy | From Methuen's first-published author, Edna Lyall
, she traces the firm's dealings with other progressive activists, with canonical names in many genres including books for children, and with such controversial figures as Ibsen
, Wilde
, and Lawrence
. |
| Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | MD
published a novel, The Dark Flood Rises, whose theme is the prospect of old age and death, though its title comes from a poem by D. H. Lawrence
, who did not live... |
| Textual Production | Anne Devlin | The opening instalment of AD
's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence
's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 245 Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press. 95 |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 90 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, p. v - xxxv. ix Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Open the Door!, Virago, p. v - xvii. x |
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