D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885–1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

by John Worthen

• ISBN13: 9780521437721
• ISBN10: 0521437725
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them previously unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary man. It describes his upbringing in a small colliery town in Nottinghamshire, and the years he spent as a teacher in London before the blossoming of his literary career. It offers new insights into his disastrous sexual experiments with Jessie Chambers, Helen Corke, Louie Burrows and Alice Dax, and provides a radically new account of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley, six years older than he, married and with three children, but to Lawrence the "woman of a lifetime." The volume ends with Lawrence completing his great autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers, destined to become one of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century. Volume 2 (1912-1922) by Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Volume 3 (1922-1930) by David Ellis will be published in late 1992 and early 1994, respectively. John Worthen, the author of D. H. Lawrence and the Idea of the Novel (1979, Rowman and Littlefield) and D. H. Lawrence: A Literary Life (1989, St. Martin's Press) has edited several of the volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. ID. H. Lawrence: The Cambridge Biography

Table of Contents

preface

Illustrations and maps

Family tree

Chronology

Eastwood and Nottingham

1815-1883 Antecedents

1883-1892 Home at Eastwood

1892-1901 Launching into life

1901-1905 Widening circles

1905-1906 Writing and painting

1906 Spirit love

1906-1908 College

Croydon and London

1908-1909 Success

1909-1910 Strife

1910 The bitter river

1911 The sick year

1911-1912 Breaking off

Eastwood Again

1912 Spring

1912 Frieda Weekley

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