D.H. LAWRENCE

D.H. LAWRENCE

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930), one of the greatest English novelists & poets of the century, was born at Nottingham as a coal miner's son. A boy of delicate health, Lawrence betrayed his aptitude for literature in early life itself. His father, though an uneducated coal miner, was very emotional and never lost the zest for life. His mother, who came from the lower middle class, was educated and resented the life of the miners When he was 3, Lawrence won a scholarship to Nottingham High school, but he left the school soon to join a firm manufacturing surgical goods. He did not work in this firm also for long. He joined the Nottingham university College for a teacher's certificate and taught for a while it Craydon. His ill health made him quit the post. Thereafter he devoted himself to literature. He fell in love with Frieda Von Richthofen who was then the mother of three children. Yet she left her husband to join Lawrence with whom she lived mostly abroad ---- Italy, Australia and new Mexico. After his return to Europe in 1929, Lawrence fell ill, and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Venice in France on 2, March. 1930.
Lawrence shot into fame with his novels, the best-known among them being "The White Peacock"(1911), "Sons and Lovers " (1913), "The Rainbow" (1915)., "Women in love" (1920), Aaron's Rod" (1922), "Kangaroo" (1923) . "The Rainbow" was condemned for its indecency, and "Lady Chatterley's Lover", had to be published abroad and circulated furtively in England, for it was banned in England and the U.S.A. Sons and Lovers is autobiographical.

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