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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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D.H. Lawrence
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(David Herbert Lawrence, 1885–1930) Novelist and poet whose high critical reputation was ensured by F.R. *Leavis. The son of a Nottinghamshire miner, he portrayed his youth in one of his most successful novels, *Sons and Lovers (1913). The Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love (1920) chronicle a Nottinghamshire family, the Brangwens, concentrating with a poetic intensity typical of Lawrence on their sexual relationships and feelings. The Rainbow was seized by the police in Britain and banned; Women in Love had to wait four years after its completion before being published in New York. *Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), famous for other reasons, is less of a unified whole than the earlier books. All share a moral earnestness which can slip into preaching.
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In 1912 Lawrence met his future wife Frieda (an aristocratic German, born von Richthofen), who was married at the time to a Nottingham professor. They spent most of the rest of his life travelling abroad until his death of tuberculosis.
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