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A Short Biography of D. H. Lawrence

Author Name:

D. H. Lawrence

Born As:

David Herbert Lawrence

Other Names:

David Herbert Lawrence

Born:

11 Sep 1885

Died:

2 Mar 1930




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Novelist                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The White Peacock- 1911
The Trespasser - 1912
Sons and Lovers - 1913
The Rainbow - 1915
Women in Love - 1920
The Lost Girl - 1920
Aaron's Rod - 1922
Kangaroo - 1923
The Boy in the Bush - 1924
The Plumed Serpent - 1926
Lady Chatterley's Lover - 1928
The Escaped Cock - 1929- later re-published as The Man Who Died.
The Virgin and the Gypsy - 1930

Short stories:

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories - 1914
England, My England and Other Stories - 1922
The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird - 1923
St Mawr and other stories - 1925
The Woman who Rode Away and other stories - 1928
The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories - 1930
Love Among the Haystacks and other stories - 1930
Collected Stories - 1994- Everyman's Library, a comprehensive one volume edition that prints all sixty two of Lawrence's shorter fictions in chronological sequence

The Rocking-Horse Winner - 1926
The Horse Dealer's Daughter - 1922
The Odour of Chrysanthemums - written between 1901 and 1914

Poetry:

Love Poems and others - 1913
Amores - 1916
Look! We have come through! - 1917
New Poems - 1918
Bay: a book of poems - 1919
Tortoises - 1921
Birds, Beasts and Flowers - 1923
The Collected Poems of D H Lawrence - 1928
Pansies - 1929
Nettles - 1930
Last Poems - 1932
Fire and other poems - 1940
The Complete Poems of D H Lawrence - 1964

Plays:

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd - 1914
Touch and Go - 1920
David - 1926
The Fight for Barbara - 1933
A Collier's Friday Night - 1934
The Married Man - 1940
The Merry-go-round - 1941
The Complete Plays of D H Lawrence - 1965
The Plays

Non-fiction:

Study of Thomas Hardy and other essays - 1914
Movements in European History - 1921-  Originally published under the name of Lawrence H. Davison.
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious - 1921/1922
Studies in Classic American Literature - 1923
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and other essays - 1925
A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover - 1929 - Lawrence wrote this pamphlet to explain his most notorious novel.
Apocalypse and the writings on Revelation - 1931 -  His last book touching on primitive symbolism, paganism and pre-Christian religion.
Phoenix: the posthumous papers of D H Lawrence- 1936
Phoenix II: uncollected, unpublished and other prose works by D H Lawrence- 1968
Introductions and Reviews
Late Essays and Articles

Travel books:

Twilight in Italy and Other Essays- 1916
Sea and Sardinia- 1921
Mornings in Mexico- 1927
Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays- 1932, 

Works translated by Lawrence:

Lev Isaakovich Shestov All Things are Possible- 1920
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin The Gentleman from San Francisco- 1922, tr. with S. S. Koteliansky
Giovanni Verga Maestro-Don Gesualdo- 1923
Giovanni Verga Little Novels of Sicily- 1925
Giovanni Verga Cavalleria Rusticana and other stories- 1928
Antonio Francesco Grazzini The Story of Doctor Manente- 1929.                          
Mother Lydia Beardsall
Father Arthur John Lawrence, four children.                          
                          
Scholarly studies of Lawrence's existing manuscripts reveal him to have been a careful craftsman. He often revised his works in a radical way by rewriting them, often over a period of years. Given this, it is interesting to compare these earlier drafts with the final, published versions