D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885–1912
The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

Originally published in 1991, the first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence reveals a complex portrait of an extraordinary man.

John Worthen (Author)

9780521437721, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 31 July 1992

692 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 4.5 cm, 1.01 kg

'It is hard to imagine that this biography will soon be superseded.' Sir Frank Kermode, Guardian

The first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence was originally published in 1991, and draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them hitherto unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary man. It describes his upbringing in a small colliery town in Nottinghamshire, his years spent as a teacher and his disastrous sexual experiments with Jessie Chambers, Helen Corke and Alice Dax, as well as providing a radical account of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley, Lawrence's 'woman of a life-time'. It ends with the completion of his great autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers. This volume has already established itself as the most complete and authoritative account available.

Author's preface
Illustrations and maps
Family tree
Chronology
Part I. Eastwood and Nottingham: 1. 1815–83 antecedents
2. 1883–92 home at Eastwood
3. 1892–1901 launching into life
4. 1901–5 widening circles
5. 1905–6 Writing and painting
6. 1906 spirit love
7. 1906–8 college
Part II. Croydon and London
8. 1908–9 success
9. 1909–10 strife
10. 1910 The bitter river
11. 1911 The sick year
12. 1911–12 breaking off
Part III. Eastwood Again: 13. 1912 spring
14. 1912 Frieda Weekley.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Biography: general [BG]