Lawrence was born in Eastwood, a coal mining town in Nottinghamshire, England, and was the fourth son in his family. His father, Arthur John Lawrence, was almost illiterate and worked as a miner in Brinsley Coal Mine. Her mother Lydia comes from a middle-class family and is a teacher. Later, because of financial difficulties at home, she had to work in a ribbon factory. Lawrence grew up in his birthplace. The building where he was born is located at 8A Victoria Street, Eastwood Town. Now it is the birthplace museum of Lawrence. The working class background and the bad relationship between parents became the creative source of his early works. Many people mistakenly believe that David Herbert Lawrence has something to do with Thomas Edward Lawrence.
Lawrence attended Boville Boarding School from 189 1 to 1898, becoming the first student in the school to receive a scholarship from the county council. He went to Nottingham High School and graduated in 190 1. After graduation, Lawrence worked as a junior clerk in Heywood's surgical instrument factory. Three months later, he suffered from severe pneumonia and had to leave his job. From 1902 to 1906, Lawrence received vocational training for teachers at Nottingham University. At first, he taught miners' children in his hometown. Later, he returned to school for further study and obtained the teacher qualification certificate issued by Nottingham University 1908.
During his teaching in Croydon, Lawrence began to publish his poems in the British Review, and Lawrence's short story Chrysanthemum was also published in this magazine, which caused repercussions in London. This is the beginning of Lawrence's career as a writer. 19 10, Lawrence published his first novel, The White Peacock, and soon his mother died of illness. There are rumors that Lawrence deliberately increased the dosage of her medicine in order to alleviate her mother's serious illness. Lawrence has a close relationship with his mother. One of his most famous works, Sons and Lovers (19 13), has caused great controversy about Oedipus complex in western critics. The death of his mother became a major turning point in Lawrence's life.
After her mother died, Lawrence's pneumonia recurred, and her condition quickly deteriorated into tuberculosis, and she finally died. When he recovered a little, he decided to give up his teaching career completely and become a full-time writer. 19 12, Lawrence eloped to Germany with Frieda von richter, the wife of a professor of modern linguistics at Nottingham University. After the outbreak of World War I, they returned to England and got married on July 19 14. During World War I, Germany and Britain were at war, so Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence lived under official surveillance and were very poor. 19 15, Lawrence's best work Rainbow was banned because of its obscene content as soon as it was published. They were even accused of sending spy information to German submarines off the coast of Cornwall.
After the war, Lawrence began his so-called "primitive pilgrimage" plan. He and his wife left England to travel around, and then returned to China only briefly twice in their lives. They traveled all over France, Italy, Sri Lanka, Australia, the United States and Mexico. He dreamed of building a utopian community in New Mexico. After living in New Mexico for several years, he had to return to Europe because of the recurrence of pneumonia and began to write Lady Chatterley's Lover. This set of novels, which later became popular in Europe, was originally published in Florence in a private name.
1930, Lawrence died in Wanke, Alpes-Maritime, France. Widows return to New Mexico where they once lived. Soon after, she also buried Lawrence's ashes there.
Lawrence's creation basically belongs to the category of realistic literature. In his works, he persistently describes the endless spiritual struggle in daily life, so many of his novels are full of melancholy emotions. His poems usually describe magnificent natural scenery, which is completely different from his novel style.
Lawrence's most famous novels are Sons and Lovers (19 13), Rainbow (19 15), Woman in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterley's Lover. The stories in these novels all take place in Nottinghamshire, the writer's hometown, a mining area with harsh natural conditions. Although Lawrence chose to leave his hometown in real life, he described the place where he was born and raised again and again in his novels.
Lawrence's creative style still belongs to realism, and the description of emotion and sex in his works is very straightforward and undisguised. This was rare in his time. Rainbow was once banned because of its lesbian plot, and a publisher claimed: "Sons and Lovers is the most obscene book I have ever read."
Lady Chatterley's Lover once caused a major obscene scandal in Britain. Because the description of sex in the book is too explicit (perhaps because the "lover" comes from the working class), the British court even filed a case for review in the name of "obscenity". However, Penguin Books, its publisher, finally won the lawsuit. The agency also published a series of works by Expressionism painting, which were destroyed for depicting hidden parts of the human body.
Although Lawrence was once called an erotic novelist, he was actually a very devout Christian. He believes that the rigid European Christianity has gradually lost its vitality and tried to transform it with primitive and tribal beliefs. This is one of the reasons why he started his "primitive pilgrimage". The ideological trend of "process philosophy" also inspired Lawrence's creation. For example, Lawrence's autobiographical work Sons and Lovers obviously bears the shadow of Nietzsche and Freud's theory.
Vladimir Nabokov once criticized Lawrence's works as bad in his book Strong Opinions.
novel
White Peacock (19 1 1)—— The tragedy of the man who chose the wrong wife?
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Intruder (19 12) "violator"
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Sons and Lovers (1913)-I used the title "Paul Moeller"
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Widowed Mrs. holroyd (19 14)
Prussian officer (19 14)
Hong (19 15)- was once banned for "indecent assault"
Women in Love (1920) —— The sequel of Rainbow
Missing girl (1920)
Chenopodium Allen (1922)
Fox (1923)- Short Stories
Captain's Toy (1923)- Short Story
Ladybug (1923)- short story
Kangaroo (1923)
Boys in the jungle (1924)
Mr Moore (1925)- short stories
Feather snake (1926)-Based on ancient Mexican mythology.
The runaway woman (1928)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928 was first published in Florence, and 1960 was only published in Britain).
poetic sentiment
Love poems (19 13)
Amos (19 16)
Love poems and other poems (19 13)
Look! We succeeded (19 17)
New Poetry (19 18)
Piano (19 18)
Gulf: Poems (19 19)
Flower and Bird (1923)
Violet (1929)
drama
Mrs. Harold is widowed (19 14)
Friday night for miners (1934)
Explosives (1920)
David (1926)
Morning in Mexico (1927)
Dusk in Italy (19 16)
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