LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT British novelist, was born at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, on Sept. 11, 1885, and educated at Nottingham high school and University college, Nottingham. With his first books, The White Peacock (1911), The Trespasser (1912) and Sons and Lovers (1913), it became evident that a writer of great force and originality was rising in the younger generation. A police prosecution of The Rain bow (1915) seemed for a time to check Lawrence's fertility, but he issued Amores, poems, and travel impressions, Twilight in Italy, in 1916, further poems, Look! We have Come Through! in 1917, and another novel, The Lost Girl, 1920. Hereafter Law rence's outlook and style were being deeply influenced by a study of psychoanalytical doctrine and by travel in Italy, Sardinia, New Mexico and Australia. A new note is evident in W omen in Love (1921), Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923), The Ladybird (1923), England, My England! (1924), St. Mawr (1925) and The Plumed Serpent (1926). Miscellaneous writings include Sea and Sardinia (1921), Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921), Fantasia of the Unconscious (1922), Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ; three plays, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
(1914), Touch and Go (1920) and David (1926) ; and a volume of essays, Mornings in Mexico (1927) ; Pansies (1929). He wrote also Movements in European History, issued as by "Lawrence H. Davison" in 1921, and under his real name in 1925. Lawrence, who died of consumption at Vence, near Nice, France, March 2, 193o, was one of the most powerful of modern English novelists. He was increasingly obsessed by the problems of sex, especially in his later works. His powerful analysis of the sex motive was pos sibly the most characteristic feature of his work; but he had a great gift in the interpretation of natural scenery, and many of his descriptive passages show spiritual insight and artistic power.
See H. J. Seligmann, D. H. Lawrence (1924) ; The Collected Poems of D. H. Lawrence (1928) Stephen Potter, D. H. Lawrence: A First Study (1930).