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Lawrence D(avid) H(erbert Richard)
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| Novelist, poet, and essayist, born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. The son of a miner, he studied at University College, Nottingham, and became a schoolmaster, but illness, and the moderate success of his first novel, The White Peacock (1911), made him leave teaching and turn to writing. In 1912 he eloped with Frieda Weekley (née von Richthofen), the wife of Lawrence's professor at Nottingham. They travelled in Germany, Austria, and Italy (1912–13), and married in 1914 after her divorce. Meanwhile Lawrence had secured his success with Sons and Lovers (1913). They returned to England at the outbreak of World War 1. In 1915 he published The Rainbow, and was prosecuted for obscenity. He left England in 1919, and after three years' residence in Italy, where he produced Women in Love, he settled in Mexico, returning to Italy in 1925. He died in Vence, near Nice, of tuberculosis. His novel Lady Chatterley's Lover (expurgated edition, 1928; unexpurgated, Paris, 1929) was published privately in Florence, and copies were confiscated in England the next year; it was not published in the UK in unexpurgated form until after a sensational obscenity trial in 1960. Some of his most original writing occurs in his poems, notably Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923), and in his Letters (7 vols, 1979–93). His other major novels include Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923), and The Plumed Serpent (1926), and his collected poems were published in 1928. Many films have been made from his fiction, notably by Ken Russell. |
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