DH Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence, born September 11, 1885, was an Arthur, Journalist, Poet and Playwright. He was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. At the age of the 12, he was the first boy in Nottingham history to win a scholarship to the Nottingham high school. However, seeing as he had trouble making friends, he often got depressed and would fall ill; this in effect took its toll on his studies. In the end, after graduating in 1901, he looked back at his childhood and said “If I think of my childhood, it is always as if there was a sort of inner darkness, like the gloss coal in which we moved and had our being”. Later in his life, he attend the University College of Nottingham.
He was best known for his infamous novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” which was banned in the United States for it high sexual contents until 1959. He was then regarded as one of the most influential writer of the 20th Century. Lawrence was from a family built up of a middle class financially ruined mother and a common miner father, Arthur John Lawrence. His mother, Lydia Lawrence, was a well-educated woman and she taught Lawrence what she knew about literature and books. There he rose with a liking for books and writing. He wrote “The White Peacock & The trespasser (1911&1912)”, “Sons and Lovers (1913), “The Rainbow’ &’Women in Love (1920)” and “The Lady Chatterley’s Lover &Final Works (1928)”.
DH Lawrence was famous for many more works which include plays and poems. He went to France to continue his work before he succumbed to tuberculosis and died March 2, 1930 at the age of 44. His writing, he considered was an attempt to challenge and expose what he saw as the constructive and oppressive cultural norms of western culture. He even stated “If there weren’t so many lies in the world… I wouldn’t write at all”.
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