About
David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. The son of a coal miner and a former schoolteacher, he won a scholarship to Nottingham High School and earned a teaching certificate in 1908. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and he left teaching in 1912 to write full-time. He eloped to Germany with Frieda von Richthofen Weekley, whom he married in 1914. His novels The Rainbow (1915) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) were prosecuted for obscenity. Lawrence led a nomadic life, traveling through Italy, Australia, New Mexico, and Mexico. He died of tuberculosis on 2 March 1930 in Vence, France, and was later re-interred in Taos, New Mexico.
* 1885-09-11 — † 1930-03-02
Major works
- The White Peacock (1911)novel
- Sons and Lovers (1913)novel
- The Rainbow (1915)novel
- Women in Love (1920)novel
- Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)novel
Key milestones
- 1915The novel The Rainbow is prosecuted for obscenity and suppressed in Britain.
- 1928The novel Lady Chatterley's Lover is prosecuted for obscenity.
- 1985A memorial stone is unveiled in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Themes
Nature and instinctHuman relationshipsSocial classSexualityModernity and industrialization
Sources: westminster-abbey.org · oxfordreference.com · britannica.com
