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D. H. Lawrence

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence), 1885-1930, English author, one of the primary shapers of 20th-century fiction.

Life

The son of a Nottingham coal miner, Lawrence was a sickly child, devoted to his refined but domineering mother, who insisted upon his education. He graduated from the teacher-training course at University College, Nottingham, in 1905 and became a schoolmaster in a London suburb. In 1909 some of his poems were published in the English Review, edited by Ford Madox Ford , who was also instrumental in the publication of Lawrence's first novel, The White Peacock ...

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