D.h. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence drew his first breath on September 11 1885, in a small house in Victoria Street, Eastwood, near Nottingham. The fourth child of a coal miner, Arthur Lawrence and Lydia (nee Beardsall), it is not recorded if that first breath was taken easily, but within two weeks the child had bronchitis. It was to be a warning: 'Bert' Lawrence's lungs would plague him all his life.
David started school at only four years of age, he was withdrawn and didn't return to the Beauvale Board School until he was seven. This late start, no doubt, disadvantaged him socially, setting him apart from the other children. Indeed, he had few friends of his own, preferring the company of ...
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the train to Nottingham at seven in the morning and didn't reach home until evening. Once again, he made few friends; Frieda, his wife, wrote that one boy who took Lawrence home to tea was horrified to discover that his father was a miner and refused to have any more to do with him.
Brinsley Colliery - source of the Lawrence family income.
Lawrence spent much of what today would be thought of as 'leisure time'(and there was precious little of it) helping his overworked, and beloved mother. His early life is open to scrutiny in his third and autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers. (Cambers 173)
At fifteen, with High School and the 19th Century over, Lawrence began work at Haywoods, a surgical appliance manufacturer in Nottingham. He seems to have had similar difficulties in making friends here too; finding the factory girls frighteningly ugly for his rather refined ways. Now away from home for fourteen hours per day, except on Sunday and one half day
per week, working in dark and ...
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called A Prelude and won a £3 prize (this was a sizable prize given that when Lawrence began teaching a year later he earned £1.90 per week). Lawrence had entered all three categories. Once in his own name, the others in friends' names; the winning entry was in Jessie Chambers' name. (Chambers 687)
In December 1904 Lawrence took the examination for the King's Scholarship, which would guarantee him a day place at Nottingham University College, where he could obtain his Teacher's Certificate. He passed - he was in the top 37 of over 2,000 candidates, but was unable to take up the position until September 1906 due to financial hardship. Lawrence was to be bitterly disappointed by college. ...
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