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Step into the intense, emotional world of D. H. Lawrence, where families, work and inner feelings collide in powerful stories of early twentieth century life.

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Fascinating Fact:

Lawrence’s fiction often explores class tension, marriage, sexuality and the conflict between instinct and social convention.

In Specialist Books, this quiz focuses on D. H. Lawrence as a major twentieth century English writer. You will explore how his novels, stories and poems portray work, family life and powerful emotion.

Key Terms

Modernist fiction: Twentieth century writing that experiments with style and focuses on characters’ thoughts and feelings.
Industrial community: A town or region shaped by factories, mines or heavy industry, often central to Lawrence’s settings.
Interior life: A character’s private thoughts, emotions and desires, sometimes at odds with the outside world.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

Who was D. H. Lawrence as an author?

D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist whose early twentieth century books examine close relationships, work, identity and the pressures of society.

Why did some people find D. H. Lawrence’s work shocking?

Some of Lawrence’s books were banned or censored because they described adult relationships and strong emotions very directly, challenging the moral rules and publishing limits of his own time.

Which readers are most likely to study D. H. Lawrence?

His work is mainly studied by older students and adults, especially on literature courses that look at modernist writing, censorship debates and changing ideas about personal freedom.

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Lawrence was born in 1885 in which mining town in Nottinghamshire?

[ ]	Eastgate
[ ]	Eastwood
[ ]	Westgate
[ ]	Westwood

In Lady Chatterley's Lover, what is Lady Chatterley's first name?

[ ]	Carol
[ ]	Constance
[ ]	Cora
[ ]	Cynthia

Lawrence's 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?

[ ]	Egypt
[ ]	India
[ ]	Mexico
[ ]	Peru

In 1901 Lawrence left school to work as a junior clerk in a factory making what?

[ ]	Bicycles
[ ]	Pit props
[ ]	Railway sleepers
[ ]	Surgical appliances

What is the appropriate title of Lawrence's 1923 novel, a semi-biographical account of a visit to Australia?

[ ]	Boomerang
[ ]	Bush
[ ]	Kangaroo
[ ]	Koala

Which 1913 novel charts the life of the aspiring artist Paul Morel?

[ ]	Aaron's Rod
[ ]	The Boy in the Bush
[ ]	Sons and Lovers
[ ]	The Trespasser

In 1907 Lawrence won a short story competition in which local newspaper?

[ ]	Nottingham Echo
[ ]	Nottingham Guardian
[ ]	Nottingham Herald
[ ]	Nottingham Post

Lawrence was diagnosed in 1925 with which disease, from which he died five years later?

[ ]	Cancer
[ ]	Cholera
[ ]	Tuberculosis
[ ]	Typhoid

In the 1969 film version of Women in Love, who wrestles naked with Oliver Reed?

[ ]	Alan Bates
[ ]	Tom Courtenay
[ ]	Richard Harris
[ ]	Patrick McGoohan

10.

The Kiowa Ranch, where Lawrence once lived, has now been renamed the D H Lawrence Ranch. In which US state is it situated?

[ ]	Arizona
[ ]	Colorado
[ ]	New Mexico
[ ]	Oklahoma

Books Quiz - Author - D H Lawrence (Answers)

Lawrence was born in 1885 in which mining town in Nottinghamshire?

[ ]	Eastgate
[x]	Eastwood
[ ]	Westgate
[ ]	Westwood

His former home in Victoria Street has been converted into a museum

In Lady Chatterley's Lover, what is Lady Chatterley's first name?

[ ]	Carol
[x]	Constance
[ ]	Cora
[ ]	Cynthia

The inspiration for Lady Chatterley was said to be Lady Ottoline Morrell, a friend of Lawrence's who lived at Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire

Lawrence's 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?

[ ]	Egypt
[ ]	India
[x]	Mexico
[ ]	Peru

The book was to have been called Quetzalcoatl, after the Aztec god, but Lawrence's publisher insisted on The Plumed Serpent

In 1901 Lawrence left school to work as a junior clerk in a factory making what?

[ ]	Bicycles
[ ]	Pit props
[ ]	Railway sleepers
[x]	Surgical appliances

He worked at Haywards, manufacturers of surgical appliances, before he became a teacher

What is the appropriate title of Lawrence's 1923 novel, a semi-biographical account of a visit to Australia?

[ ]	Boomerang
[ ]	Bush
[x]	Kangaroo
[ ]	Koala

Kangaroo is the story of an English writer and his German wife's visit to Australia in the early 1920s. Coincidentally, Lawrence and his German wife Frieda visited Australia in 1922

Which 1913 novel charts the life of the aspiring artist Paul Morel?

[ ]	Aaron's Rod
[ ]	The Boy in the Bush
[x]	Sons and Lovers
[ ]	The Trespasser

The most biographical of Lawrence's works, based on his childhood and youth in Eastwood

In 1907 Lawrence won a short story competition in which local newspaper?

[ ]	Nottingham Echo
[x]	Nottingham Guardian
[ ]	Nottingham Herald
[ ]	Nottingham Post

This was the first time any of Lawrence's work was published

Lawrence was diagnosed in 1925 with which disease, from which he died five years later?

[ ]	Cancer
[ ]	Cholera
[x]	Tuberculosis
[ ]	Typhoid

He died in Vence, France at the age of 44