D. H. Lawrence (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Brenda Maddox
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1908-1930
- Setting: London, Cornwall, and other English locations; the Continent, chiefly Italy and Germany; Australia; Mexico; and Taos, New Mexico
- Principal Characters: D. H. Lawrence, Frieda Lawrence, Mabel Dodge Luhan, The Honorable Dorothy Brett, John Middleton Murry, Angelo Ravagli
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Abused persons, Authors or writers, Marriage, Adultery, Diseases, Tuberculosis
- Locales: Mexico, London, England, Germany, Italy, Taos, NM, Australia, Cornwall, England
Brenda Maddox’s D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage was published simultaneously in England as The Married Man: A Life of D. H. Lawrence. The latter is a more appropriate title for the work Maddox has produced. Although Maddox (the author of a biography of James Joyce’s wife, Nora) has chosen to play down the “prophet of sex” approach taken by other Lawrence biographers, opting instead to concentrate on the writer’s primary relationship, her book is by no means a dual biography. Frieda Lawrence is a vivid and compelling presence in D. H. Lawrence,...
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