D.H. Lawrence was a 20th century English novelist, poet, and literary critic born in 1885 in Nottinghamshire, England. He came from a working-class background which influenced his writing. Lawrence was known for his controversial works that openly explored topics of sex and his criticism of modern industrial society. Some of his most famous works include Sons and Lovers (1913) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). Lawrence traveled extensively throughout Europe, Australia, and North America with his wife Frieda due to being exiled from England after their marriage. He died of tuberculosis in France in 1930.

1. D.H. Lawrence
"If there weren't so many lies in the
world ... I wouldn't write at all."

2. Background
 Born 11 September 1885 in Eastwood,
Nottingham, England as David Herbert
Lawrence
 Father: Arthur Lawrence who was a
miner
 Mother: Lydia Lawrence a former pupil
teacher. Due to their financial difficulties
she had to work in a lace factory
 Novelist, poet, literary critic, painter

3. Education
 Attended Beauvale Board
School
 Won a scholarship to
Nottingham High School
 Earned his teaching
certificate in 1908
 Stopped teaching in 1911
after suffering from a bad
case of pneumonia for a
second time

4. Influences
 His early poems were influenced by
Ezra Pound and the imaginist movement
 His writings also reflect influences of
Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, and
Melville
 He used his background of coming from
a working class family in a lot of his
works. Also, he used his parents’
tensions in his writing.

5. Writing
 Classified as a realist
 His work was controversial some of his
works were censored
 Had radical views, wrote openly about
sex, he was intrigued with the topics of
homosexuality and what he thought was
the evil of modernism and industrialized
society.
 Portrayed female characters as strong
women in his works

6. Famous Works
 Ford Madox Ford (editor of The English
Post) published Lawrence’s Odour of
Chrysanthemums
 1910 first published novel The White
Peacock
 Most famous for Sons of Lovers (1913)
and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

7. Marriage
 In 1912 Lawrence met Frieda Weekley who
was married to his professor at the time.
 Frieda was six years older than Lawrence
and had three children from her previous
marriage
 They married on 13 July 1914
 As he was writing Women in Love (1916-
17) he developed a romantic relationship
with a Cornish farmer William Henry
Hocking.

8. Exiled
“Savage Pilgrimage”
 After their marriage Lawrence was
arrested and accused of being a
British spy
 Both fled and traveled to Italy, Australia,
U.S, Mexico, and the south of France
 Kept returning to England and in 1917
they were forced to leave Cornwall

9. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
 Penguin Books published this novel in
Britain in 1960
 Went to trial under the Obscene
Publications Act
 On November 2, 1960 the ruling was
“not guilty”
 Published Italy (1928) U.S (1959)

10. Death
 Died March 2, 1930
from tuberculosis
complications.
 Despite the many
controversies of his
writings, EM Forster
labeled him to be
“the greatest
imaginative novelist
of our generation.”

11. Visited Cites
http://www.dh-lawrence.org.uk/round-the-
world.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrenc
e
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/37