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David Herbert Richard Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood Nottinghamshire and died on 2 March 1930 in Vence. He was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, painter and according to E.M Forster the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation. | David Herbert Richard Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood Nottinghamshire and died on 2 March 1930 in Vence. He was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, painter and according to E.M Forster the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation. His life was adventurous. He travelled the world and lived and wrote in very different locations across four continents. His work explores issues of sexuality and gender, construction of identity and the development of social and political themes. He had an international success that stretched far beyond the Anglophone world. | ||
'''Early life''' | |||
D.H. Lawrence was born into a working-class family. His father was a miner and his mother a middle-class woman that married under her class. The young Lawrence went to Nottingham High School | |||
and did not like other young men finish school with 14 years and start to work in local coal industries in Eastwood. Hungry for knowledge, he continued going to school and qualified in the British school in Eastwood as a school-teacher (1906). Before becoming a teacher he became a short-time clerk in a medical supplies buisness. He had a passion for reading books and was very interested in arts. His relationship to his mother was therefore closer. She was the serious-minded reader in the family, whereas his father had an easy-going attitude to life. The emotional band to his mother grew especially strong after his brother's death in 1901. A religious and moral education he earned in the large congregationalist community of Eastwood, where his mother's values of education, self-improvement and self-discipline were reinforced. By the time of his mother's death he recognized his strong interest in writing, which his father rejected. | |||
Revision as of 15:50, 6 December 2011
David Herbert Richard Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood Nottinghamshire and died on 2 March 1930 in Vence. He was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, painter and according to E.M Forster the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation. His life was adventurous. He travelled the world and lived and wrote in very different locations across four continents. His work explores issues of sexuality and gender, construction of identity and the development of social and political themes. He had an international success that stretched far beyond the Anglophone world.
Early life
D.H. Lawrence was born into a working-class family. His father was a miner and his mother a middle-class woman that married under her class. The young Lawrence went to Nottingham High School and did not like other young men finish school with 14 years and start to work in local coal industries in Eastwood. Hungry for knowledge, he continued going to school and qualified in the British school in Eastwood as a school-teacher (1906). Before becoming a teacher he became a short-time clerk in a medical supplies buisness. He had a passion for reading books and was very interested in arts. His relationship to his mother was therefore closer. She was the serious-minded reader in the family, whereas his father had an easy-going attitude to life. The emotional band to his mother grew especially strong after his brother's death in 1901. A religious and moral education he earned in the large congregationalist community of Eastwood, where his mother's values of education, self-improvement and self-discipline were reinforced. By the time of his mother's death he recognized his strong interest in writing, which his father rejected.