D. H. Lawrence (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Worthen
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1885-1912
- Setting: Eastwood, Nottinghamshire; London, England
- Principal Characters: David Herbert Richards Lawrence, Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, Arthur John Lawrence, Jessie Chambers, Louisa (“Louie”) Burrows, Frieda von Richthofen Weekley
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Literature, Class consciousness, England or English people, Bohemianism, Orphans or orphanages, Literacy, Coal or coal mining
- Locales: London, England, Nottingham, England
Many will approach John Worthen’s massive study of D. H. Lawrence’s early life believing that they already know a great deal about its subject. After all, Sons and Lovers (1913) is the Lawrence novel one probably reads first, and everybody realizes that its fictive location, Bestwood, is Lawrence’s Eastwood and that the Morel family is Lawrence’s own. Like his contemporary Thomas Mann, Lawrence used his life to create his art; yet Sons and Lovers resembles Mann’s Buddenbrooks (1901) only insofar as they are both autobiographical novels. Though both novels...
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