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David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer.

David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in the village of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. He was the fourth child in a family of a miner and a former schoolteacher. His turbulent relationship with his violent father and his passionate attachment to his refined, socially ambitious mother greatly influenced his later work.

In 1898 David Herbert Lawrence won a scholarship to Nottingham High School, and in 1906 he received a teaching qualification at the University of Nottingham. He taught at a primary school in Croydon and began writing poetry and short stories.

At the same time he began work on a novel, and in 1909 sent several poems to the English Review, edited by F. M. Ford. Ford published Lawrence’s poems and several short stories, helped to get his novel The White Peacock (1911) into print, and introduced Lawrence to London literary circles. By this time Lawrence was already working on his second novel, The Trespasser (1912), and the first version of Sons and Lovers. The death of his mother from cancer in December 1910 deeply shocked the writer. His own poor health forced him to leave teaching and devote himself entirely to literary work.

In the spring of 1912 Lawrence ran away to Europe with Frieda Weekley (née von Richthofen), the wife of Nottingham professor E. Weekley. In 1913 his first collection of poems and the novel Sons and Lovers were published. At the same time he began working on a novel under the provisional title The Sisters, which later split into The Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love (1920). In 1914 Lawrence’s first collection of stories, The Prussian Officer, was published. After England entered the war, the Lawrences were forbidden to leave the country. The Rainbow was banned immediately after publication in 1915, and for Women in Love Lawrence was unable to find a publisher at all; the novel was published in New York in 1920 at the author’s expense.

In 1919 Lawrence left England and thereafter visited his homeland only occasionally. He traveled in Italy, Sicily, Ceylon, and Australia, came to the United States, where he lived on a ranch near Taos, New Mexico, and visited Mexico. He worked fr