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David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 at
Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, the son of a coalminer and a
woman who had been a teacher. He spend much of his childhood
ill and confined to his bed, on one occasion due to contracting
tuberculosis. His parents would argue constantly and Lawrence
tended to side with his mother, to whom he grew very close. Living
in near poverty his mother was determined that he should not become
a miner like his father. Instead she encouraged him academically and
Lawrence was persuaded to work hard at Nottingham High School
until the age of fifteen when he had to seek employment in a surgical
goods factory. This period of his life and his friendship with Jessie
Chambers is reflected in Sons and Lovers, a novel published in 1913
and its character Miriam.
Saving the necessary £20 fee, Lawrence attained a scholarship to
University College, Nottingham where he worked to get a teacher's
certificate from 1906 onward.At this time he began writing and
produced a first novel, The White Peacock (1911) and the follow-up,
The Trespasser (1912). However, his teaching career was soon
destroyed by the death of his mother which predictably shook him
up terribly. He became extremely ill and was encouraged to give up
teaching whereupon he wrote and published one of his most famous
novels, the autobiographical Sons and Lovers (1913).There are so
many parallels between Sons and Lovers and Lawrence’s own life as
the son of an illiterate coal miner and his educated, socially aspiring
wife, that the novel can well be called autobiographical..

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