ABSTRACT
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the fourth son of a miner. His childhood and youth, and the environment in which he grew up, are vividly evoked in his autobiographical third novel Sons and Lovers (1913)' On the publication of his first novel The White Peacock (1911) Lawrence gave up school-teaching to become a full-time writer. In 1914 he married Frieda von Richthofen. Until his death from tuberculosis in 1930 , he travelled extensively in Europe, Australia, and America, writing continually.
