D. H. Lawrence

The first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence was originally published in 1991 and draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources many of them hitherto unpublished to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary man. It describes his upbringing in a small colliery town in Nottinghamshire his years spent as a teacher and his disastrous sexual experiments with Jessie Chambers Helen Corke and Alice Dax as well as providing a radical account of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley Lawrences woman of a life-time. It ends with the completion of his great autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers. This volume has already established itself as the most complete and authoritative account available.