D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885-1912, Vol. 1

The first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them hitherto unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary man.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; provides a radical new account of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley, Lawrence's 'woman of a life-time'; and 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.Worthen, John is the author of 'D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885-1912, Vol. 1' with ISBN 9780521254199 and ISBN 0521254191.