David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. From 1908 he worked as a teacher in Croydon. It was there that he began to write, his first novel being published in 1910. In 1912 he eloped to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the wife of his former tutor, Professor Ernest Weekley. At the outbreak of World War One the two returned to the UK and took up residence in Cornwall. It was here that Lawrence wrote Women in Love.
Lawrence was a prolific writer, not only of novels but also of poetry, short stories, plays and essays. He was also a painter. He drew a lot of his inspiration from his childhood in Nottinghamshire. Sadly, he suffered with his health for most of his life. In the 1920s it declined and Lawrence spent most of his final years abroad, rarely visiting the UK. He died in 1930 at the age of 44. He is probably best remembered for his controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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His former home in Victoria Street has been converted into a museum
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The inspiration for Lady Chatterley was said to be Lady Ottoline Morrell, a friend of Lawrence's who lived at Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire
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The book was to have been called Quetzalcoatl, after the Aztec god, but Lawrence's publisher insisted on The Plumed Serpent
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He worked at Haywards, manufacturers of surgical appliances, before he became a teacher
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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
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The most biographical of Lawrence's works, based on his childhood and youth in Eastwood
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This was the first time any of Lawrence's work was published
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He died in Vence, France at the age of 44
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The film was directed by Ken Russell and also starred Glenda Jackson
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Lawrence lived at the ranch for two years during the 1920s
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