A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England
D H Lawrence (Author)
David Herbert Lawrence was born 11 September 1885 in Eastwood,
Nottinghamshire. His father was a miner and his mother was a
schoolteacher. In 1906 he took up a scholarship at Nottingham
University to study to be a teacher. His first novel, The White
Peacock, was published in 1911. Lawrence gave up teaching in 1911
due to illness. In 1912 he met and fell in love with a married
woman, Frieda Weekley, and they eloped to Germany together. They
were married in 1914 and spent the rest of their lives together
travelling around the world. In 1915 Lawrence published The Rainbow
which was banned in Great Britain for obscenity. Women in Love
continues the story of the Brangwen family begun in The Rainbow and
was finished by Lawrence in 1916 but not published until 1920.
Another of Lawrence's most famous works, Lady Chatterley's Lover,
was privately printed in Florence in 1928 but was not published in
Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an unsuccessful
court case brought against it for obscenity. As well as novels,
Lawrence also wrote in a variety of other genres and his poetry,
criticism and travel books remain highly regarded. He was also a
keen painter. D.H. Lawrence died in France on 2 March 1930.
Rachel Cusk (Introducer)
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and moved to the United
Kingdom in 1974. She is the author of nine novels and three works
of non-fiction. She has won and been shortlisted for numerous
prizes- Outline (2014) was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the
Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Prize, the Giller Prize and the
Canadian Governor General's Award. It was also picked by the New
York Times as one of the top ten books of the year. Its follow-up,
Transit (2016), was chosen as a book of the year by the Observer,
New Statesman, Guardian and Spectator. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was
nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British
Novelists'. In 2015 her version of Euripides' Medea was put on at
the Almeida Theatre with Rupert Goold directing and was shortlisted
for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose
best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play
and set up against each other in dialogue that is never simply or
finally resolved
*David Lodge*
No writer since Lawrence has been so openly governed by what seems
like powerful personal likes and dislikes, grievances, and by what
appear to many as untenable prejudices
*Amit Chauduri*
What astonished me reading it this time round is the iconoclastic
modernity of the novel... the sense of daring experiment.. I had
entirely forgotten what drastic steps Lawrence was taking with
character, for instance. Or with narrative (the novel proceeds
cyclically). When this is combined with sexual overtness and a
revolutionary call for the individual to achieve "Me-ness" in
opposition to the nation, industry and war, we have a book that,
appearing as it did in 1915, seemed genuinely disturbing
*Guardian*
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