Women in Love

The greatest imaginative novelist of our generationWhat beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed * Guardian *It is a wonderful novel by a writer who created his own narrative voiceThe point with Lawrence is never to be afraid of going too far, is always to push, push, push. In the pushing-process, Lawrence writes one of the most truly and thoroughly poetic novels in EnglishHe’s an intoxicator… Has there ever been anyone like him for bringing places and people so vividly to life?An astonishingly avant-garde novel * Guardian *It’s a very brave and outspoken book, which expresses things that we still have trouble expressing todayI do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps- festering, putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven * John Bull, 1921 *Lawrence was the first literary artist to emphasise the huge importance of sex as a means of human fulfillment * The Times *Its questions about marriage and eroticism, grief and the frightening blankness of nature, have made it one of our century’s most popular novels * Financial Times *

D H Lawrence (Author)

David Herbert Lawrence was born 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His father was a miner and his mother was a schoolteacher. In 1906 he took up a scholarship at Nottingham University to study to be a teacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911. Lawrence gave up teaching in 1911 due to illness. In 1912 he met and fell in love with a married woman, Frieda Weekley, and they eloped to Germany together. They were married in 1914 and spent the rest of their lives together travelling around the world. In 1915 Lawrence published The Rainbow which was banned in Great Britain for obscenity. Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen family begun in The Rainbow and was finished by Lawrence in 1916 but not published until 1920. Another of Lawrence’s most famous works, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was privately printed in Florence in 1928 but was not published in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an unsuccessful court case brought against it for obscenity. As well as novels, Lawrence also wrote in a variety of other genres and his poetry, criticism and travel books remain highly regarded. He was also a keen painter. D.H. Lawrence died in France on 2 March 1930.

Howard Jacobson (Introducer)

Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.

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