Odour of Chrysanthemums | Author Biography
The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, an illiterate coal miner, and Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, a former school teacher, David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 and raised in the mining village of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. From boyhood he shared a close relationship with his mother and grew to hate the debilitating mine work he considered responsible for his father’s debased condition. Later in his life, however, he acquired a genuine sympathy for his father’s plight. Lawrence attended local grammar and secondary schools and later, from 1906 to 1908, studied at Nottingham University...
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