DH Lawrence was forth child of Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Lawrence. He was born in Eastwood in a house on Victoria Street. His father was a coal miner and his mother was a school teacher. Lawrence grew up with a lot of poverty and friction between his mother and farther. After winning a scholarship to Nottingham high school, He worked hard and made the most of the opportunity, but it was a strain certainly on the family finances. At the age of fifteen with high school over and the 19th century over. Lawrence began work at Haywood’s a surgical appliance manufacturer in Nottingham. He found it hard to make friends with people. This meant that most of his time that he had to spare was spent on his own. Lawrence fell ill with pneumonia due to his working conditions and frail health due to his mothers devoting nursing he recovered.

He joined a local British school as pupil teachers were he was expected to help with classes. After taking orders off the head master and teaching children he decided to join another British school in Ilkeston where for the first time in his life he made many friends. In this time he became friends with the chambers family and in particular one of the daughters Jessie, a future lover and intellectual companion. In 1906 he became a student teacher at university college Nottingham and spent much of his time writing. It was in this time that he published his first short story.

Following university Lawrence left Eastwood for a teaching post in Croydon. In his free time Lawrence wrote. In 1911 his first novel the white peacock was published. But his mother passed away from cancer in the previous moths which over shadowed Lawrence. In November 1911 the poor health that had plagued Lawrence all year culminated into pneumonia. Once again he fought his way free of the illness but his lungs have been damaged further. The doctors have told him that returning to teaching would be to court tuberculosis and so again his life’s direction was changed by his lungs.

Lawrence returned to Nottinghamshire where he got advice from the former professor Ernest weekley. However he feels in love with weekleys wife Frieda and the two left to live in Germany. Over the next few years they both travelled around Germany, Italy, England and Switzerland, while Lawrence became an increasingly successful writer.

In 1914 Frieda’s divorce was granted and on 13th July Lawrence and Frieda were married in London. There plan was to return to Italy in the august but the war got in the way and prevented their departure. They lived in Buckinghamshire, where Lawrence worked on his study of Thomas hardy before revising his latest novel. The first part turned into the rainbow. Reviews were savage and his reputation was damaged. Lawrence then moved to Cornwall but the locals were suspicious of a controversial writer living with a German wife so close to the coast.

Lawrence fell in again in 1919 with influenza, although he pulled through. He turned against England and moved to Italy in 1920. In this time he has a brief affair with Rosalind Baynes, Which he talked about in his poetry. In 1922 after travelling though southern Europe to sardine Lawrence and Frieda wanted to fulfil their dreams and move to America. First they went to Ceylon but they weren’t happy there. So they went off to Australia before arriving in America. They lived in Taos, New Mexico while living in America Lawrence wrote several pieces of work. This got published in America.

Lawrence travelled to Mexico where he wanted to complete the plumed serpent. After he finished he book in 1923 he fell ill again but this time with a number of illness called typhoid, pneumonia and tuberculosis. He again recovered from these illnesses and he began to finish his play. In 1924 Lawrence’s farther Arthur died so Lawrence made a brief visit to England which inspired him to write the novel lady Chatterley’s lover.

Lawrence and Frieda were limited to how long they could stay in Mexico. Although Lawrence called Mexico one of his greatest experiences of his life. They ended up moving back to Italy. One of his most famous novels the Chatterley lover was attacked for its sexual content then later banned however Lawrence became ill again and in 1930 Lawrence checked himself into sanatorium in venue but then later discharged himself but shortly passed away at the age of 44 on Sunday 2nd march 1930.