Male : Poet, Painter and novelist. Miner's son. Playwright. 1912 eloped with Frieda Weekley, the German wife of his former languages tutor. They married 1914. They travelled extensively and built a ranch at Taos in New Mexico. Died in Vence, south of France, of TB. Lawrence claimed that his work sprang as much from Frieda as it did from himself

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Eastwood, Nottingham

Date of Birth : 1885 Date of Death : 1930 Age : 44

Pseudonyms : Lawrence H Davison

Other Work : Teacher in Eastwood, Ilkeston & Croydon

Education : Nottingham High School & Nottingham University College

1911-1915
The White Peacock (1911 Duffield & Co, US) (1911 Heinemann)
The Trespasser (1912 Duckworth) (1912 Mitchell Kennerley)
Sons and Lovers (1913 Duckworth) (1913 MK)
[Filmed in 1960]
Love Poems and Others (1913 Duckworth) (1913 Kennerley, NY)
The Prussian Officer & other stories (1914 Duckworth) (1916 Huebsch)
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1914 Kennerley) (1914 Duckworth)
The Rainbow (1915 Methuen) (1916 Huebsch)
[Prosecuted for obscene libel when first issued. Filmed in 1988]

1916-1920
Amores : Poems (nd. 1916 Duckworth) (1916 Huebsch)
Twilight in Italy (1916 Duckworth) (1916 Huebsch)
Look! We Have Come Through (1917 Chatto & Windus)
New Poems (1918 Secker) (1916 Huebsch)
Bay : A Book of Poems (1919 Beaumont)
The Lost Girl (1920 Secker) (1921 Seltzer)
Touch and Go : A Play in Three Acts (1920 C W Daniel, London) (1920 Seltzer)

1921-1923
Women in Love (1921 Secker) - Signed Ltd Ed 50
[Filmed in 1969]
Women in Love (1921 Secker)
Sea and Sardinia (1921 Seltzer) (1923 Secker)
Movements in European History (textbook by Lawrence H Davison) (1921 OUP)
Aaron's Rod (1922 Thomas Seltzer) (1922 Secker)
Fantasia of the Unconscious (1922 Seltzer) (1923 Secker)
England, My England & Other Stories (1922 Thomas Seltzer) (1924 Secker)
The Ladybird The Fox, The Captain's Doll(1923 Secker) (1930 Seltzer) - novelettes
["The Fox" was filmed in 1968]
Kangaroo (1923 Secker) (1923 Seltzer)
[Filmed in 1987]
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1923 Secker)
Birds Beasts and Flowers (1923 Seltzer) (1923 Secker)

1924-1926
The Boy in the Bush (1924 Secker) (1924 Seltzer) - with M L Skinner
St Mawr The Princess (1925 Secker)
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine & Other Essays (1925 Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent)
(Trans) Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga (1925 Basil Blackwell)
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine & Other Essays (1925 Centaur Press, US) - Ltd Ed 925
Glad Ghosts (1926 Ernest Benn ) - Ltd Ed 500
David (1926 Secker) (1926 Knopf)
The Plumed Servant (1926 Secker) (1926 Knopf)

1927-1929
Mornings in Mexico (1927 Secker) (1927 Knopf)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928 - PP, Florence) - 1000 Signed
[A copy sold at auction in 2004 for £9600]
The Collected Poems (1928 Secker - 2 vols)
Rawdon's Roof (1928 Elkin Mathews - Woburn Books No 7) - Signed Ltd Ed 530
The Woman Who Rode Away & Other Stories (1928 Secker) (1928 Knopf)
The Escaped Cock (1929 Black Sun Press, Paris) - Ltd ed 500.
(in UK as "The Man Who Died" 1931 Secker)
The Story of Dr Manente (1929 Orioli, Florence) - 200 numbered & signed
Offered in 1999 for £600
Pansies (1929 PP by P R Stephensen) - Signed Ltd Ed 500
(1929 Secker)
The Paintings of D H Lawrence (1929 The Mandrake Press) - 500
Offered in 1995 for £400
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929 - PP, Paris) - 500
[Filmed in 1955 & as a 'soft porn' version in 1981]
Pornography and Obscenity (1929 Faber) (1930 Knopf)

1930
Assorted Articles (1930 Secker)
Apropos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1930 Mandrake Press, London)
Nettles (1930 Faber, Criterion Miscellany No 11)
The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930 Orioli, Florence) - Ltd Ed 810
Offered in 1999 for £515
(1930 Secker) (1930 Knopf)
[Filmed in 1970]
Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1930 Cresset Press) - Ltd Ed 500. Wood engravings
by Blair Hughes-Stanton
Offered for £400 in 1998
(In) The Best Poems of 1930 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1930 Cape)
Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces (1930 Secker)
Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces (1930 Nonesuch Press) - Ltd Ed 1600

1931-1935
The Man Who Died (1931 Martin Secker) - 2000 in UK & US
The Triumph of the Machine (1931 Faber Ariel Poem No 28)
Apocalypse (1931 Orioli, Florence) - Ltd Ed 750
Last Poems (1932 G Orioli) - Ltd Ed 750
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1932 Secker) (1932 Knopf) - first English expurgated edition
The Letters of D H Lawrence (1932 Heinemann) (1932 Viking NY)
- edited by Aldous Huxley. Ltd Ed 525
Etruscan Places (1932 Secker)
The Lovely Lady (1932 Secker) (1933 Viking)
Apocalypse (1932 Secker) (1932 Viking NY)
The Plays of D H Lawrence (1933 Secker)
The Ship of Death & Other Poems (nd. 1933 Secker) - Blair Hughes-Stanton
The Tales of D H Lawrence (1934 Secker)
A Modern Lover (1934 Secker)
A Collier's Friday Night (1934 Secker)
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine & Other Essays (1934 Secker)
The Man Who Died (1935 Heinemann) - John Farleigh

1936-1960
Pornography and So On (1936)
Phoenix : The Posthumous Papers of D H Lawrence (1936 Heinemann)
The Manuscripts of D H Lawrence (1937 Los Angeles)
The Poems of D H Lawrence (1939 Heinemann) - 2 vols
Fire and Other Poems (1940 Book Club of California)
Full Score : Twenty Tales (1943 Reprint Society)
The Complete Short Stories (1955 Heinemann) - 3 vols
The Short Novels (1956 Heinemann) - 2 vols
The Complete Poems (1957 Heinemann) - 3 vols
The Selected Letters (1958 Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, NY)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1959 Grove Press, US) - first American unexpurgated ed
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1960 Penguin 3/6)
[Allen Lane decided to print this as the first unexpurgated copy in the UK. He was taken to court
for obscenityand the jury decided the book wasn't obscene.
Within days Lane had sold 500.000 copies of the book]
C H Rolph : The Trial of Lady Chatterley (1961 Penguin)

AFTER 1961
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1961 Heinemann)
The Complete Poems (1964 Heinemann) - 2 vols
The Complete Plays (1965 Heinemann)
The Mortal Coil & Other Stories (1971 Penguin)
Sons and Lovers (1975 Ltd Eds Club, Avon) - 1500 signed by Sheila Robinson
Birds, Beasts and the Third Thing (1982 Viking, NY) - Alice & Martin Provensen
The Letters of D H Lawrence (1979-93 CUP) - 7 vols. Ed by James T Boulton & others
Mr Noon (1984 CUP)
The Love Poems of .... (Ed by Roy Booth (1993 Kyle Cathie £8.99)
The Selected Letters of D H Lawrence (1997 CUP £29.95) - edited by James Boulton

READING
1931-1940
John Middleton Murry : Son of Woman - The Story of D H Lawrence (1931 Cape)
Anai Nin : D H Lawrence - An Unprofessional Study (1932 Edward Titus, Paris)
Ada Lawrence & G Stuart Gelder : Young Lorenzo - Early Life of D H Lawrence
(1932 Orioli, Florence) - 740
Gilbert H Fabes : D H Lawrence : His First Editions, Points and Values (1933 Foyle, London) - 500
'E T" (Jessie Chambers) : D H Lawrence - A Personal Record (1935 Cape)

1941-1960
Richard Aldington : D H Lawrence - Portrait of a Genius, But ... (1950 Chatto & Windus 15/-)
Richard Aldington : D H Lawrence : An Appreciation (1950 Penguin) - 32 page pamphlet
F R Leavis : D H Lawrence - Novelist (1955 Chatto & W)
Graham Hough : The Dark Sun - A Study of D H Lawrence (1956 Duckworth 25/-)
Anthony Beal : D H Lawrence - Selected Literary Criticism (1956)
(Ed) Edward Nehls : D H Lawrence - A Composite Biography (1957-9 Univ of Wisconsin Press) - 3 vols

1961-1970
Anthony Beal : Lawrence - A Biography and Critical Commentary (1961)
Warren Roberts : A Bibliography of D H Lawrence (1963 Hart-Davis)
H M Daleski : The Forked Flame - A study of D H Lawrence (1965 NW Univ Press, Illinois)
Mark Schorer : D H Lawrence (1968 NY)
David Cavitch : D H Lawrence and the New World (1969 NY)

1971-1980
Emile Delavenay : D H Lawrence & Edward Carpenter - A Study in Edwardian Transition
(1971 Heinemann)
Frank Kermode : D H Lawrence (1973 Fontana)
Harry T Moore : The Priest of Love - A Life of D H Lawrence (1974 Heinemann £6)
(Ed) Anne Smith : Lawrence and Women (1978 Vision Press)
Paul Delany : D H Lawrence's Nightmare - The Writer and His Circle in the Years of the Great War
(1978 NY)
Keith Sagar : D H Lawrence - A Calendar of His Works (1979 Manchester UP)

1981-1985
(Ed) Keith Sagar : A D H Lawrence Handbook (1982 Manchester UP)
Warren Roberts : A Bibliography of D H Lawrence (1982 CUP) - revised ed
Hilary Simpson : D H Lawrence and Feminism (1982 Croom Helm)
Anthony Burgess : Flame into Being - The Life & Works (1985 Heinemann)
Keith Sagar : D H Lawrence - Life into Art (1985 Viking)

1986-1990
Michael D Black : D H Lawrence - The Early Fiction (1986 Macmillan)
(Ed) Neil Philip : The Heart of Man - An Illustrated Selection (1989 Bloomsbury £14.95)
John Worthen : D H Lawrence - A Literary Life (1989 Macmillan)
(Ed) Keith Brown : Rethinking Lawrence (1990 Open Univ Press)
Brian Finney : D H Lawrence - Sons and Lovers (1990 Penguin)
Allan Ingram : The Language of D H Lawrence (1990 Macmillan)
Tony Pinkney : D H Lawrence (1990 Harvester Wheatsheaf)

After 1991
John Worthen : D H Lawrence - The Early Years (1991 CUP)
Michael D Black : D H Lawrence - Sons and Lovers (1992 CUP)
Jeffrey Meyers : D H Lawrence - A Biography (1993 Papermac)
Brenda Maddox : The Married Man - A Biography of D H Lawrence (1994 Sinclair Stevenson)
Janet Byrne : A Genius for Living - A Biography of Freida Lawrence (1995 Bloomsbury £20)
David Ellis : D H Lawrence - Dying Game 1922-1930 (1998 CUP £35)
Michael Squires & Lynn K Talbot : Living at the Edge - A Biography of D H Lawrence
& Frieda von Richtofen (2002 Hale £35)
John Worthen : D H Lawrence - The Life of an Outsider (2005 Allen Lane £30)