Beecham, Richard, and Patricia Riley. “Foreword”. Looking for Githa, New Writing North.
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 | Ali Smith | This volume, themed around eruptions of conflict between lovers, features short-story selections from Jhumpa Lahiri
, Jackie Kay
, D. H. Lawrence
, Katherine Mansfield
, Dorothy Parker
, and Grace Paley
(as in the... |
Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | Beecham
called the play a ferocious Geordie drama thick with dialect, diatribe and an unsparing depiction of the brutalities of the industrial north at the turn of the century. |
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 | 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. 312 Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | Esther Smith
argues that D. H. Lawrence
radically recast this novel in Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
Textual Features | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel draws on MAW
's knowledge of the work of land girls (members of the Women's Land Army
)—such as those led by her daughter Dorothy
at Stocks—and the recent transformation of... |
Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | |
Publishing | Fay Weldon | A TV play she wrote for the BBC, about D. H.
and Frieda Lawrence
in Cornwall during the First World War, was never transmitted, ostensibly because the Lawrence estate had objected about the infringement of... |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | RW
published her study D. H. Lawrence not long after Lawrence
's death. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library. 7 West, Rebecca. D.H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, http://UofA. 5 |
Friends, Associates | Rebecca West | RW
requested the meeting because she admired Nin's work on D. H. Lawrence
. The two women became good friends. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 134 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | West comments on the public reaction to Lawrence
's death, lamenting that he was not sufficently honoured by his peers. She praises his literary genius, and pronounces his life a spiritual victory. West, Rebecca. D.H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, http://UofA. 44 |
Publishing | Anna Wickham | Nearly twenty years after her death, the Texas Quarterly first published AW
's essay entitled The Spirit of the Lawrence
Women. Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11. 10 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | AW
was a good friend of D. H. Lawrence
. She went for many long and preoccupied Newlin, Margaret. “Anna Wickham: ’The sexless part which is my mind’”. Southern Review, Vol. n. s. 14 , pp. 281-02. 286 Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 161 |
Reception | Anna Wickham | Thanks to Untermeyer and to British poet and anthologist John Gawsworth
, by the 1930s AW
's poetry was widely anthologised, making her often as well represented as respected male poets such as Lawrence
,... |
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