David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer, who in his work expressed his belief in emotion and the sexual impulse as creative and true to human nature.

Why is D. H. Lawrence famous?

His novels include Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1921), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). Lawrence also wrote short stories, for example "The Woman Who Rode Away', and poetry.

Son of a Nottinghamshire miner, Lawrence studied at University College, Nottingham, and became a teacher. He achieved fame with the semi-autobiographical Sons and Lovers, which includes a portrayal of his mother (died 1911).

In 1914 he married Frieda von Richthofen, ex-wife of his university professor, with whom he had run away in 1912, and who was the model for Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow, suppressed for obscenity, and its sequel Women in Love.

His travels in search of health (he suffered from tuberculosis, from which he eventually died near Nice) prompted books such as Mornings in Mexico in 1927. Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1928 was banned as obscene in the UK until 1960.

Why is D. H. Lawrence famous?

D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright and essayist.

D. H. Lawrence Lists

	D. H. Lawrence
	1885 births
	1930 deaths
	Alumni of the University of Nottingham
	English novelists
	English short story writers
	Imagists
	People from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
	Old Nottinghamians
	Deaths from tuberculosis
	Bisexual writers
	LGBT people from England
	Infectious disease deaths in France

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Category: Writers  - ( Writers Archive)

Date Added: 09 May '12

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