Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers,by D. H. Lawrence , published 1913 , a closely autobiographical novel set in the Nottinghamshire coalmining village of Bestwood.
Walter Morel has married a sensitive and high-minded woman better educated than himself. She begins to shrink from his lack of fine feeling and drunkenness; embittered, she turns their marriage into a battle. Morel, baffled and thwarted, is sometimes violent, while Mrs Morel rejects him and turns all her love towards her four children, particularly her two eldest sons, William and Paul. She struggles with the poverty and meanness of her surroundings to keep herself and her family ‘respectable’ and is determined that her boys will not become miners. William goes to London to work as a clerk, and Paul also gets a job as a clerk with Mr Jordon, manufacturer of surgical appliances; William develops pneumonia and dies. Mrs Morel, numbed by despair, is roused only when Paul also falls ill. She...
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