A Memoir of D. H. Lawrence
'The Betrayal' G. H. Neville

A memoir of D. H. Lawrence by the author's closest childhood friend, George Henry Neville, with supplementary material by Dr Carl Baron.

Carl Baron (Edited by)

9780521135436, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 March 2010

224 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.3 kg

George Henry Neville was D. H. Lawrence's closest childhood friend. The relationship between them was one of those deep male–male bonds that Lawrence always felt the need of, and someone like Neville recurs frequently in the fiction. Reading Middleton Murry's life of Lawrence, Son of Woman, in the 1930s, Neville saw it as the 'Betrayal' of his title, and set out to tell the story from his own point of view. Murry saw Lawrence's relationship with his mother as crucial; but Neville saw the other aspects at first hand. Above all, he stressed his own part in the story, as one of those who loved Lawrence and was loved by him, and says a great deal about Lawrence's early determination to make the sexual relationship the theme of his writing. Dr Carl Baron's additions meanwhile help place Neville's account as one of the most important first-hand sidelights on the story given artistic form in Sons and Lovers.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Editor's introduction
Editorial note on the Neville papers
A memoir of D. H. Lawrence
Introduction
1. Early days
2. Lawrence and his parents
3. The effect of the farm
4. Stages on the journey
5. Lawrence - 'The Son of Woman'
6. Lawrence - the son of man
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Rainbow
Appendix B: Lawrence, Neville and Greiffenhagen's Idyll
Notes.

Subject Areas: Biography: general [BG]