Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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
. |
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. Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol. new series 6 , pp. 63-8. 64 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Renault | Homosexuals in British fiction had been portrayed mostly as sick, funny, or both since the Oscar Wilde
trials (1895). E. M. Forster
had kept his Maurice unpublished. Radclyffe Hall
had run into trouble. Virginia Woolf |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | When she finished the novel early in 1913, she showed it to Jack Beresford and a publisher. Neither of them was enthusiastic, so the manuscript was stored for some time. In January 1915, Beresford suggested... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | The first reviewer, in the Sunday Observer, found DR
's narrative strategy extraordinary, but remarkably clear. He noted that her leaving the reader without explanations or apologies was not in the least troubling or... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce
, focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | In September 1934, she met S. S. Koteliansky
, known as Kot to such friends and associates as Katherine Mansfield
and John Middleton Murry
, D. H. Lawrence
, and Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Textual Production | Martin Ross | Martin's brother James
had already published hunting stories. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 116 |
Occupation | Naomi Royde-Smith | She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade. Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber. 1: 149n1 Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 137 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | As a tribute to institutions of shared literacy and collective engagement, many of the stories here involve reading within and through the public sphere. Two are dedicated to the friendship between D. H. Lawrence
and... |
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