Life of D. H. Lawrence

Andrew Harrison is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Director of the D. H. Lawrence Research Centre at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published numerous articles on D. H. Lawrence, and late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century writings. He is the author of D. H. Lawrence and Italian Futurism: A Study of Influence (2003), and co-editor of D. H. Lawrence’s ‘Sons and Lovers’: A Casebook (with John Worthen, 2005).

• List of Illustrations viiAcknowledgements ixAbbreviations xiPreface xviPart I Literary Formation, 1885–1912 11 Early Voices, September 1885–October 1908 32 Literary London, October 1908–April 1910 313 ‘A Small but Individual Name’, April 1910–May 1912 49Part II Un Englished, 1912–1914 794 ‘Coming Out Wholesome and Myself’, May 1912–May 1913 815 Forging a Career, June 1913–August 1914 106Part III The Bitterness of the War and its Aftermath, 1914–1919 1256 ‘The Real Fighting Line’, August 1914–December 1915 1277 Outlaw, December 1915–April 1918 1508 ‘Laid Up’, May 1918–November 1919 177Part IV Europe Again, 1919–1922 1979 Italy and Sicily, November 1919–December 1920 19910 End of the Line, January 1921–February 1922 218Part V New Worlds and Old Worlds, 1922–1925 23511 Ceylon and Australia, February–August 1922 23712 On to America, August 1922–November 1923 24713 Broken Bonds, December 1923–July 1924 27014 Writing for the Race, August 1924 –September 1925 283Part VI Returning, 1925–1927 30315 Understanding, September 1925–April 1926 30516 Writing and Painting, April 1926–March 1927 319Part VII ‘Unfailing Courage’, 1927–1930 33917 Friendship and Isolation, March 1927 –May 1928 34118 ‘Dropping a Little Bomb in the World’s Crinoline of Hypocrisy’, May 1928–August 1929 36319 ‘Living on his Spirit’, August 1929 –March 1930 394Afterword 406Bibliography 411Index 420