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David Herbert Lawrence was born 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His father was a miner and his mother was a schoolteacher. In 1906 he took up a scholarship at Nottingham University to study to be a teacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911. Lawrence gave up teaching in 1911 due to illness. In 1912 he met and fell in love with a married woman, Frieda Weekley, and they eloped to Germany together. They were married in 1914 and spent the rest of their lives together travelling around the world. In 1915 Lawrence published The Rainbow which was banned in Great Britain for obscenity. Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen family begun in The Rainbow and was finished by Lawrence in 1916 but not published until 1920. Another of Lawrence's most famous works, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was privately printed in Florence in 1928 but was not published in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an unsuccessful court case brought against it for obscenity. As well as novels, Lawrence also wrote in a variety of other genres and his poetry, criticism and travel books remain highly regarded. He was also a keen painter. D.H. Lawrence died in France on 2 March 1930.
Lawrence's finest book and still not sufficiently recognized as one of the crowning achievements of 20th century fiction. To describe it as an early feminist work would be to some extent true but it is a limiting label. Women in Love is a magnificent study of relationships: between men and men; women and women; and men and women, especially in marriage. It is also a hymn to the power of landscape; and to tenderness in human beings, all intertwined with the necessity of 'finding oneself'. Lawrence himself considered this his best book. Written during World War I but not published until 1920 (because of the suppression of its predecessor, The Rainbow, for obscenity), it takes up the story of the sisters Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen and through them and their lovers dramatizes Lawrence's own beliefs about physical and spiritual love and the destructive pressures of convention. (Kirkus UK)
