|
 D.
H. Lawrence
If you've enjoyed Women in Love, you should consider reading its companion novel The Rainbow, a sort of prequel (PR6023.A93 R3). Two recent biographies of Lawrence are Jeffrey Meyers's D. H. Lawrence: A Biography (PR6023.A93 Z68118 1990), and Mark Kinkead -Weekes's volume in the Cambridge biography, D.H. Lawrence, triumph to exile, 1912-1922 (PR6023.A93 Z6379 1996), which covers the years in which he wrote Women in Love. Diane Marie Ward's Aesthete's List pages on Lawrence offer biographical and bibliographical information, and links. A good general guide to Lawrence is A D. H. Lawrence Handbook, edited by Keith Sagar (PR6023.A93 Z62339 1982). So too is the Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence, edited by Anne Fernihough (PR6023.A93 Z595 2001). The standard edition of Lawrence's work is the Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence. The first version of Women in Love, which differs considerably from the version published in 1920, can be found in the Cambridge Edition, edited by John Worthen and Lindeth Vasey (PR6023.A93 F575 1998). Much of Lawrence's theories of aesthetics and of fiction can be found in his own essays, such as the Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays (PR6023.A93 S78 1985) and the posthumous collection Phoenix (PR6023.A93 A116 1936-) and Phoenix II (PR6023.A93 A116 1968). Studies of the ways
in which sexual difference functions in his novels include Carol
Dix's D. H. Lawrence and Women (PR6023.A93
Z6238 1980), Lawrence and Women, edited by Anne Smith (PR6023.A93
Z648 1978), Nigel Kelsey's D. H. Lawrence: Sexual Crisis (PR6023.A93
Z6368 1991) and Sheila MacLeod's Lawrence's Men and Women (PR6023.A93
Z67 1985). Christopher Craft's Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual
Desire in English Discourse 1850-1920 ( PR468.H65
C73 1994) includes material on Women in Love--and is also available
online.
For Lawrence's politics, see Kelsey (above), and Peter Scheckner's
Class, Politics, and the Individual: A Study of the Major Works of
D. H. Lawrence (PR6023.A93
Z8654 1985). Barbara Mensch's D. H. Lawrence and the Authoritarian
Personality (PR6023.A93
Z6787 1991) is about that dark strain of hom Eastwood and D. H. Lawrence offers a tour of the Nottinghamshire mining town in which Lawrence was born. It includes shots of the houses the family lived in, and various locations which appear in his novels. There is also an archive of photos of old Eastwood, as it was in Lawrence's time, and links to the home site of the Lawrence Museum which now occupies the house in which he was born. The Rananim Society's site has photos and a guide to Taos, the New Mexican ranch which was Lawrence's home on occasions later in his life. Women in Love's Hermione Roddice is a close caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell; Sir Joshua Mattheson is Bertrand Russell; Breadalby is Garsington Manor, the Morrell country house just outside Oxford. For information on this circle in which Lawrence briefly (and disastrously) mixed, see this part of the Teaching History Online site. For more pictures, see the Bertrand Russell Gallery. You can find images of some of Lawrence's paintings at Eva Moeller's site. Bibliomania has an etext of Women in Love. |
|
The
contents of these pages are © 2004, The University of Queensland,
Queensland, Australia 4072 |
oerotic
hero-worship so frequent throughout Lawrence. Tony
Pinkney's Lawrence and Modernism (