D. H. Lawrence (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Kinkead-Weekes
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1912-1921
- Setting: Germany, Italy, and England
- Principal Characters: D. H. Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen Weekley Lawrence, Ernest Weekley, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lady Cynthia Asquith, S. S. Koteliansky, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, Bertrand Russell, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Richard Aldington, William Henry Hocking, Robert Mountsier
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Alienation, Novelists, War, World War I, Great Britain, Toleration
- Locales: England, Germany, Italy
D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile, 1912-1922 is the central panel in what will eventually be an enormous biographical triptych. The first volume, D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885-1912, by John Worthen, was favorably received upon its publication in 1991. The third volume, written by David Ellis, will concentrate on the last eight years of Lawrence’s relatively brief but productive life. In volume 2, spanning ten pivotal years in the middle of the novelist’s career, Mark Kinkead-Weekes mines the wealth of information recently made available by the publication of new...
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