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D. H. Lawrence: Introduction

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction

Childhood And Youth:

D. H. Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood - the Bestwood of Sons and
Lovers - a mining town just outside Nottingham, in the industrial Midlands of
England. Like Paul Morel, he was the son of a coal miner, Arthur Lawrence, and
a strong - willed, refined, middle - class girl, Lydia Beardsall Lawrence,
formerly a schoolteacher, who, like Gertrude Morel, had married "beneath her."
In fact, the picture of Paul's childhood given in Sons and Lovers is as
accurate and detailed a picture of Lawrence's own boyhood as any ...

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