There was a time I would rather have endured minor surgery than read a 400-page biography of D.H. Lawrence, whose misogyny is canon. “The one vile man I have ever known,” wrote Virginia Woolf. When ...
“I’ve met a man and I think he’s the one. I wanted you to know that I’m happy at last.” This message records one of many life events written into the guest book at the D.H. Lawrence Memorial, near ...
The sixth in an occasional series on the books that spurred our love of travel. “I am not Baedeker,” D.H. Lawrence forewarns readers of his travel writing from Italy. Instead of train schedules, ...
In a 1969 essay, Elizabeth Hardwick described the worst kind of literary biography: the overstuffed, underthought tome whose claim to authority rests solely upon the accumulation of facts. In such ...
D.H. Lawrence had a flair for offending people. It wasn’t just the explicit content of books like “Sons and Lovers” and “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” He turned friends into enemies, and his enthusiasm ...
IF you wander around in any bookstore nowadays, you will come upon several books about D. H. Lawrence: Mr. John Middleton Murry’s autobiography, Frieda Lawrence’s memoirs, Keith Winter’s roman à clef ...
Of all the countless anecdotes told of D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), my absolute favorite takes in the musician-cum-critic Cecil Gray, Lawrence’s neighbor during his World War I-era sojourn in Cornwall.
Vladimir Nabokov and D. H. Lawrence each wrote a major novel (“Lolita,” “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”) that was banned and unbanned and banned again before being cut free. There are other similarities.
THE antagonistic friendship of D. H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell endured for a little more than a year. Not long after they met, early in 1915, the two men planned to give a series of lectures ...
The D.H. Lawrence Review is published bi-annually as an international forum for criticism, scholarship, review, and bibliography related to the work of the British writer D.H. Lawrence and his circle.
Two great novelists, Jane Austen and D. H. Lawrence, their birth anniversaries and their relationship with Scotland are being ...