The Rainbow | Biography
David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885, in the mining town of Eastwood in the English Midlands. His parents were John Arthur Lawrence, a coal miner and the model for Walter Morel in Sons and Lovers (1913), and Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, a former schoolteacher and the model for Gertrude Morel in the same novel. Lawrence grew up in Eastwood and lived there for twenty years. Those years were difficult for him due to health problems that plagued him from birth, impoverished living conditions, and his parents’ constant fighting. His autobiographical novel Sons and...
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