D. H. Lawrence (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Ellis
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1922-1932
- Setting: Ceylon, Australia, Mexico, Italy, Germany, England, France, and New Mexico
- Principal Characters: David Herbert Lawrence, Frieda Lawrence Ravagli, Mabel Dodge Luhan, John Middleton Murry, S. S. (“Kot”) Koteliansky, Witter Brynner, Dorothy Brett, Aldous Huxley, Achsah and Earl Brewster, Thomas Seltzer
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Authors or writers, Literature, Marriage, 1920’s, 1930’s, Storytelling, Health, Lungs, Motivation
- Locales: France, Mexico, England, New Mexico, Germany, Italy, Australia, Sri Lanka
Carlton Beals, who met D. H. Lawrence in Mexico City in 1923, remembered him as “a thin man with a body that seemed about to fall to pieces; his face was pasty, expressionless.” At about the same time, a young Danish student, Knud Merrild, thought, “He did not seem frail, but gave you a feeling of sinewy strength.” The poet Witter Brynner, who met Lawrence in 1922, recalled a man with “beard and hair [that] seemed like eaves he was cuddling under—a weasel face hiding under the warm fur of its mother and peeking out.” May Gawler, who saw him in Australia that year, said he...
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