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Also known as: David Herbert Lawrence
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David Herbert Lawrence
Born:
September 11, 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England
Died:
March 2, 1930, Vence, France (aged 44)

D.H. Lawrence (born September 11, 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England—died March 2, 1930, Vence, France) was an English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. His novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. Lawrence was the fourth child of a north Midlands coal miner who had worked from the age of 10 and was a dialect speaker, a drinker, and virtually illiterate. Lawrence’s mother, who came from the south of England, was educated, refined, and pious. Lawrence ...(100 of 3242 words)

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