David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, England. His father, a coalminer, was comparatively uneducated, but his mother had been a teacher and wanted her children to have a good education. Lawrence won a scholarship to Nottingham High School and did well there. 

But the family was very poor, so at sixteen he began work as a junior clerk, working long hours and travelling a tong way to work each day. 

He became ill as a result, but was nursed back to health by his mother, who loved him devotedly and possessively.Lawrence became a teacher, and started writing poetry and a novel. When this first novel, The White Peacock, was published, he gave up teaching to write full-time. 

He travelled widely with his German wife, living in Italy, Australia, the USA and Mexico, and wrote many fine poems, stories, travel books and novels. He died of  tuberculosis at the age of 44 near Nice in France.

D. H. Lawrence is one of the best known-literary figures of the twentieth century. His writing often deals with the negative aspects of modern industrial society, contrasted with the beauty of nature and natural feeling. 

Many people found his books offensive: Lady Ghattcrle Lover was banned for. several years in Britain because of the directness of its language. 

His novels reflect much of his personal experience, including his uneasy adolescence and his parents’ unhappy relationship.