D.H. Lawrence - A personal review.

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D.H. LAWRENCE

Name: Shem Mankey

Teacher: Ms. Hall

Due Date: 25/08/03

Good morning/afternoon everyone, today I am here to speak to you all about D.H. Lawrence.  D.H. Lawrence was born David Herbert Lawrence in 1885, he died in 1930.  On of his most popular pieces of work is LADY CHATTERLY’S LOVER, it tells of the love affair between a wealthy, married woman, and a man who works on her husband's estate.  The book was banned for some time in both the UK and US and deemed as pornographic.  SONS AND LOVERS was another of D.H. Lawrence’s well-known pieces of work, this novel was based on his childhood.  D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature and his work is still taught, used and studied in education today and holds an important place in our society today.  His principles of sexual freedom began many obscenity trials, which are still part of the connection between literature and society, his work is still relevant in modern-day society because of it strong link to society and the way we live and feel.  D.H. Lawrence’s work is comparable with the work of contemporary poets because of its link to society and the way we live.

D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in central England. He was the fourth child of a struggling coal miner who was a heavy drinker.  His mother was a former school teacher; she was seen to be greatly superior in education to her husband.  D.H. Lawrence's childhood was subject to poverty and hostility between his parents.

Encouraged by his mother, with whom he had a deep emotional bond, and who is figured to be Mrs Morel in his first masterpiece, Lawrence became interested in arts.  He was educated at Nottingham High School, to which he had won a scholarship.  He worked as a clerk in a surgical appliance factory and then four years as a pupil-teacher.  After completing his studies at Nottingham University, Lawrence pursued a teaching career at Davidson Road School in Croydon in South London when ye was 22.  Lawrence's mother died in 1910 - he helped her die by giving her an overdose of sleeping medicine.  This scene was re-created in his novel SONS AND LOVERS.

In 1909 a number of Lawrence's poems were submitted by Jessie Chambers, his childhood sweetheart, to Ford Madox Ford, who published them in the English Review. The appearance of his first novel, THE WHITE PEACOCK, launched Lawrence as a writer at the age of 25.  In 1912 he met Frieda von Richthofen and fell in love with her.  Frieda left her husband and three children, and the two left for Bavaria and then continued to Austria, Germany and Italy.  In 1913, Lawrence's novel SONS AND LOVERS appeared; this novel was based on his childhood, and contains a portrayal of Jessie Chambers, the Miriam in the novel and called 'Muriel' in early stories.

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In 1914 Lawrence married Frieda von Richthofen, the two travelled extensively through several countries in the last two decades of his life.  Lawrence's fourth novel, THE RAINBOW completed in 1915, was about two sisters growing up in the north of England. The character of Ursula Brangwem was partly based on Lawrence's teacher associate in Nottingham, Loui Burrows.  She was Lawrence's first love.  The novel was banned for its alleged obscenity - it used swearwords and talked openly about sex.  Over 1000 copies of the novel were burned under the magistrate's order.  The banning of this publication created many other ...

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