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- Birth nameDavid Herbert Richards Lawrence
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire, England, 11 September 1885. His father was a coal miner, his mother a genteel woman who sought education and refinement for her son. Lawrence earned a university degree and taught school for a short time. While still a student he began to publish his poems and short stories. He fell in love with the wife of a professor, Frieda von Richthofen Weekley. She eloped with Lawrence, abandoning her husband and three small children. Lawrence's pet themes of myth, freedom, redemption, the difficulty and necessity of emotional, erotic expression and the inevitable torments of family relationships occupied him throughout his life. Eventually, there would be accusations of obscenity, his novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" being the most prominent example.- IMDb mini biography by: Eileen Berdon <eberdon@aol.com>
- SpouseFrieda von Richthofen(July 13, 1914 - March 2, 1930) (his death)
- In 1960 Penguin Books published the first unexpurgated version of Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in England. They were charged with obscenity but found not guilty. The book has since been filmed many times.
- A rejection slip from a publisher warned Lawrence, "For your own good, do NOT publish this book!"
- During the obscenity trial the out-of-touch prosecutor asked the jury: "Is it a book you would wish your wife or servants to read?" One of the many reasons the case of Regina v. Penguin Books Ltd was lost.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 237-254. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- The suggestion made in this IMDb filmography that D.H. Lawrence wrote over 150 scripts for an American TV series called "The Plainclothesman" is, of course, preposterous. Lawrence died in 1930, before any TV service existed in Europe, let alone America. "The Plainclothesman" did not begin its run on American TV until 1949, nineteen years after Lawrence's death.
- How beautiful maleness is, if it finds the right expression.
- The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is portray her as perfection.
- The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
- Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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