England, My England

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  • The
  • son
  • of
  • a
  • miner,
  • the
  • prolific
  • novelist,
  • poet,
  • and
  • travel
  • writer
  • David
  • Herbert
  • Lawrence
  • was
  • born
  • in
  • Eastwood,
  • Nottinghamshire,
  • in
  • 1885.
  • He
  • attended
  • Nottingham
  • University
  • and
  • found
  • employment
  • as
  • a
  • schoolteacher.
  • His
  • first
  • novel,
  • The
  • White
  • Peacock,
  • was
  • published
  • in
  • 1911,
  • the
  • same
  • year
  • his
  • beloved
  • mother
  • died
  • and
  • he
  • quit
  • teaching
  • after
  • contracting
  • pneumonia.
  • The
  • next
  • year
  • Lawrence
  • published
  • Sons
  • and
  • Lovers
  • and
  • ran
  • off
  • to
  • Germany
  • with
  • Frieda
  • Weekley,
  • his
  • former
  • tutor's
  • wife.
  • His
  • masterpieces
  • The
  • Rainbow
  • and
  • Women
  • in
  • Love
  • were
  • completed
  • in
  • quick
  • succession,
  • but
  • the
  • first
  • was
  • suppressed
  • as
  • indecent
  • and
  • the
  • second
  • was
  • not
  • published
  • until
  • 1920.
  • Lawrence's
  • lyrical
  • writings
  • challenged
  • convention,
  • promoting
  • a
  • return
  • to
  • an
  • ideal
  • of
  • nature
  • where
  • sex
  • is
  • seen
  • as
  • a
  • sacrament.
  • In
  • 1928
  • Lawrence's
  • final
  • novel,
  • Lady
  • Chatterley's
  • Lover,
  • was
  • banned
  • in
  • England
  • and
  • the
  • United
  • States
  • for
  • indecency.
  • He
  • died
  • of
  • tuberculosis
  • in
  • 1930
  • in Venice.
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