“Daughters of the Vicar”

D.H. Lawrence entitled the first version of “Daughters of the Vicar,” written in 1911, the year following Lawrence’s mother’s death, “Two Marriages.” In a letter to Louie Burrows dated July 15, 1911, Lawrence described spending all the day and until ten o’clock that evening writing thirty-eight pages of a lengthy short story. The following day he wrote his fiancée to announce that he had finished the tale he called “Two Marriages” (Boulton 1979, 287-88).