ABSTRACT
Lawrence first came into print in 1907 as the winner of a Christmas story contest held by the Nottinghamshire Guardian. He submitted three tales: “The White Stocking,” “A Fragment of Stained Glass,” and “The Prelude,” which took the prize. (After extensive revision, the first two would appear in 1914 in Lawrence’s first collection of short fiction, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories.) A year and a half later, Lawrence’s good friend Jessie Chambers copied out several of his poems and sent them to Ford Madox Hueffer (the surname became “Ford” when the First World War fostered anti-German sentiment), the editor of the distinguished English Review. Accepted immediately and published that November, these poems presaged Lawrence’s future success.
