England, My England
D. H. Lawrence
- 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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