This first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence
draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them previously
unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary man. It describes
his upbringing in a small colliery town in Nottinghamshire, and the years he
spent as a teacher in London before the blossoming of his literary career. It
offers new insights into his disastrous sexual experiments with Jessie Chambers,
Helen Corke, Louie Burrows and Alice Dax, and provides a radically new account
of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley, six years older than he, married
and with three children, but