David Herbert Lawrence was born in 11 September 1885 was an English writer and poet.
The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner at Brinsley Colliery.His mother was a pupil teacher. She had been forced to perform manual work in a lace factory due to her family's financial difficulties.
Lawrence spent his formative years in the coal mining town of Eastwood. The house in which he was born is now the D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum. The tensions between his parents provided the raw material for a number of his early works. Lawrence roamed out from an early age in the patches of open, hilly country .He often wrote about "the country of my heart" as a setting for much of his fiction.
The young Lawrence attended Beauvale Board School from 1891 until 1898. He was the first local pupil to win a council scholarship to Nottingham High School. He left in 1901,[6] working for three months as a junior clerk at Haywood's surgical appliances factory, but a severe bout of pneumonia ended this career.
During his convalescence he often visited Hagg's Farm, the home of the Chambers family, and began a friendship with Jessie Chambers. An important aspect of this relationship with Chambers was a shared love of books, an interest that lasted throughout Lawrence's life. In the years 1902 to 1906 Lawrence served as a pupil teacher at the British School.
He went on to become a full-time student and received a teaching certificate from University College, Nottingham (then an external college of University of London), in 1908. During these early years he was working on his first poems.
At the end of 1907 he won a short story competition in the Nottinghamshire Guardian.
In the autumn of 1908, the newly qualified Lawrence left his childhood home for London. While teaching in Davidson Road School, Croydon, he continued writing.[8] Jessie Chambers submitted some of Lawrence's early poetry to Ford Madox Ford editor of the influential The English Review.The story Odour of Chrysanthemums which, when published in that magazine, encouraged Heinemann, a London publisher, to ask Lawrence for more work.
His career as a professional author now began in earnest, although he taught for another year. His first published novel was The White Peacock, appeared in 1910.
Lawrence's mother died of cancer. He was to describe the next few months as his "sick year". Lawrence had an extremely close relationship with his mother.His grief became a major turning point in his life, just as the death He wrote autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers, a work that draws upon much of the writer's provincial upbringing.
The novel also documents Paul's (Lawrence's) brief intimate relationship with Miriam (Jessie) that Lawrence had finally initiated in the Christmas of 1909.
In 1911, Lawrence was introduced to Edward Garnett.She was a publisher's reader, who acted as a mentor, provided further encouragement, and became a valued friend.
Lawrence and Frieda meet in London on 28 July. Frieda obtained her divorce. The couple returned to Britain before the outbreak of World War I and were married on 13 July 1914.
In February 1922, the Lawrences left Europe behind with the intention of migrating to the United States. They sailed in first to Ceylon and then on to Australia.
The Lawrences arrived in the United States in September 1922.Lawrence continued to write .His health failing. In his last months he wrote numerous poems and essays, as well as a robust defence of his last novel against those who sought to suppress it. His last significant work was a reflection on the Book of Revelation . After being discharged from a sanatorium, he died on 2 March 1930 in Vence, France. Frieda Weekley commissioned an elaborate headstone for his grave.After Lawrence's death, Frieda lived with Angelo Ravagli on the ranch in Taos and married him in 1950.
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The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner at Brinsley Colliery.His mother was a pupil teacher. She had been forced to perform manual work in a lace factory due to her family's financial difficulties.
Lawrence spent his formative years in the coal mining town of Eastwood. The house in which he was born is now the D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum. The tensions between his parents provided the raw material for a number of his early works. Lawrence roamed out from an early age in the patches of open, hilly country .He often wrote about "the country of my heart" as a setting for much of his fiction.
The young Lawrence attended Beauvale Board School from 1891 until 1898. He was the first local pupil to win a council scholarship to Nottingham High School. He left in 1901,[6] working for three months as a junior clerk at Haywood's surgical appliances factory, but a severe bout of pneumonia ended this career.
During his convalescence he often visited Hagg's Farm, the home of the Chambers family, and began a friendship with Jessie Chambers. An important aspect of this relationship with Chambers was a shared love of books, an interest that lasted throughout Lawrence's life. In the years 1902 to 1906 Lawrence served as a pupil teacher at the British School.
He went on to become a full-time student and received a teaching certificate from University College, Nottingham (then an external college of University of London), in 1908. During these early years he was working on his first poems.
At the end of 1907 he won a short story competition in the Nottinghamshire Guardian.
In the autumn of 1908, the newly qualified Lawrence left his childhood home for London. While teaching in Davidson Road School, Croydon, he continued writing.[8] Jessie Chambers submitted some of Lawrence's early poetry to Ford Madox Ford editor of the influential The English Review.The story Odour of Chrysanthemums which, when published in that magazine, encouraged Heinemann, a London publisher, to ask Lawrence for more work.
His career as a professional author now began in earnest, although he taught for another year. His first published novel was The White Peacock, appeared in 1910.
Lawrence's mother died of cancer. He was to describe the next few months as his "sick year". Lawrence had an extremely close relationship with his mother.His grief became a major turning point in his life, just as the death He wrote autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers, a work that draws upon much of the writer's provincial upbringing.
The novel also documents Paul's (Lawrence's) brief intimate relationship with Miriam (Jessie) that Lawrence had finally initiated in the Christmas of 1909.
In 1911, Lawrence was introduced to Edward Garnett.She was a publisher's reader, who acted as a mentor, provided further encouragement, and became a valued friend.
Lawrence and Frieda meet in London on 28 July. Frieda obtained her divorce. The couple returned to Britain before the outbreak of World War I and were married on 13 July 1914.
In February 1922, the Lawrences left Europe behind with the intention of migrating to the United States. They sailed in first to Ceylon and then on to Australia.
The Lawrences arrived in the United States in September 1922.Lawrence continued to write .His health failing. In his last months he wrote numerous poems and essays, as well as a robust defence of his last novel against those who sought to suppress it. His last significant work was a reflection on the Book of Revelation . After being discharged from a sanatorium, he died on 2 March 1930 in Vence, France. Frieda Weekley commissioned an elaborate headstone for his grave.After Lawrence's death, Frieda lived with Angelo Ravagli on the ranch in Taos and married him in 1950.
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