D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912–1922
The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

This 1996 second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912–22.

Mark Kinkead-Weekes (Author)

9781107403000, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 November 2011

1022 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 5.1 cm, 1.4 kg

Review of the hardback: 'Mark Kinkead-Weekes has produced a wonderful second volume. His skill at sifting through anecdotage and speculation pays off in Triumph to Exile 1912–1922, the most convincing and objective account of Lawrence I have read.' The Sunday Times

This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912–22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and most controversial writers of the twentieth century. During this period Lawrence produced the trio of novels with which he was to revolutionise English fiction over the next decade. It was a painful process: Sons and Lovers was crudely cut by its publisher; The Rainbow was destroyed by court order; and Women in Love took almost three years to find a publisher. This 1996 biography tells the writing life too, tracing the illuminating relations between man and manuscript, without confusing life and art. Drawing on previously unseen information from the Cambridge Editions of the Letters and Works, and original research, fresh light is shed on questions of Lawrence's sexuality, health, quarrels and friendships, which have been more often gossiped or theorised about than scrupulously examined.

Part I. A World of Promise: 1. New life
2. New utterance
3. The Wedding Ring
Part II. Spear in the Side: 4. The Rainbow
5. Rainbow's end
Part III. Cornwall: 6. Midwinter life
7. Orpheus descending
Part IV. A Kind of Wintering: 8. On a ledge
9. Marking time
Part V. Italy Again: 10. Capri and Sicily
11. On the move
12. A sense of finality.

Subject Areas: Biography: general [BG]