The Rocking-Horse Winner | Historical Context

The Modern Era
Lawrence was writing during the early part of the twentieth century, and he, like most writers of the day, was significantly influenced by World War I. He had read and loved the novels of nineteenth-century writers George Eliot, author of Silas Marner, and Thomas Hardy, author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but grew dissatisfied with the predictability of such characters. After the war, many people began to question the old ways of looking at the world. Lawrence joined in the questioning by making his characters less sure of themselves, less bound...

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