D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) was born in Nottinghamshire and was the son of a miner. He was a poet, novelist and critic of society and is still a great influence. He tried to re-defìne the roles of men and women and mixed a wonderful visual imagination, with a quasi-mystical attitude to sex. His best novels are Sons and Lovers, 1913, The Rainbow (fìrst published in 1915 and revised in 1926) and Women in Love, 1921.