D. H. Lawrence
11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930
****David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 in Nottinghamshire, England where his father was a miner. His experience growing up in a coal-mining family provided much of the inspiration for Sons and Lovers. Lawrence had many affairs with women in his life, including a longstanding relationship with Jessie Chambers (on whom the character of Miriam is based), an engagement to Louie Burrows, and an eventual elopement to Germany with Frieda Weekley. Sons and Lovers was written in 1913, and contains many autobiographical details.
Many of Lawrence’s novels were very controversial because of their frank treatment of sex, and both The Rainbow and Lady Chatterley’s Lover were banned during his lifetime. This controversial treatment of sex is evident as well in Sons and Lovers; Lawrence’s fear of negative public opinion may have been one reason for his vague use of language and the obscure treatment of sex in the novel
Sons and Lovers
Mrs.Morel (Mom) had a good amount of children
In sons and lovers, Paul (”DH”) has an extremely strong bond with his mother. (DH had a strong bond with his mother in which he received his passion for gaining knowledge) “It is clear that Lawrence had an extremely close relationship with his mother and his grief following her death became a major turning point in his life, just as the death of Mrs. Morel forms a major turning point in his autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers, a work that draws upon much of the writer's provincial upbringing.”
Paul fell in love with a Miriam ( a farm girl), and liked Clara (suffragette) whom was married
Lady Chatterly
They grow progressively closer, connecting on a primordial physical level, as woman and man rather than as two minds or intellects.
Connie Reid, the female protagonist of the novel. She was raised as a cultured bohemian of the upper-middle class, and was introduced to love affairs--intellectual and sexual liaisons--as a teenager.
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