David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was born into a miner's family
in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the fourth of five children. He
attended Beauvale Board School and Nottingham High School, and
trained as an elementary schoolteacher at Nottingham University
College. He taught in Croydon from 1908. His first novel, The White
Peacock, was published in 1911, just a few weeks after the death of
his mother, to whom he had been extraordinarily close. His career
as a schoolteacher was ended by serious illness at the end of
1911.
In 1912 Lawrence went to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the German
wife of the Professor of Modern Languages at University College,
Nottingham. They were married on their return to England in 1914.
Lawrence had published Sons and Lovers in 1913; but The Rainbow,
completed in 1915, was suppressed, and for three years he could not
find a publisher for Women in Love, completed in 1917.
After the war, Lawrence lived abroad and sought a more fulfilling
mode of life than he had so far experienced. With Frieda he lived
in Italy, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Mexico and Mexico. They
returned to Europe in 1925, settling in Italy again, where he
finished Lady Chatterley's Lover. This, his last novel, was
published in 1928, but did not appear in its complete form in
England and America for thirty years. The tuberculosis which had
first been diagnosed in Mexico was becoming increasingly serious by
this time, and in a last attempt to find a cure Frieda took him to
Germany and then France. He died aged forty-four in Vence, in the
south of France. After his death, Frieda wrote that 'What he had
seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men,
the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life ... a
heroic and immeasurable gift.'
Lawrence's life may have been short, but he lived it intensely. He
produced an amazing body of work- novels, stories, poems, plays,
essays, travel books, translations, paintings and letters (over
five thousand of which survive).
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