D.H. Lawrence lived through some harrowing times. He faced trials, both literally and figuratively, but in the end he prevailed. His writings were groundbreaking at the time. He wrote openly about sex, something that was unheard of previously. All of his works (novels, paintings, poetry) have a prevailing sexual theme to them, he was criticized for them during his lifetime, and his works were censored more than 20 years after his death, well into the 1950s.

Although there were some historically significant events going on during Lawrence’s lifetime, he tended to not focus on them in his writings. Instead, he based his stories loosely around actual events in his life. This wasn’t characteristic of

Lawrence led a contented existence with Frieda until his death on March 2, 1930. He published many books over his lifetime. The three books that he is best known for are Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Lady Chatterly’s Lover. Lawrence was cremated, and his ashes were unaccounted for until 1935, when they were taken to Taos, New Mexico, and place in a shrine on his ranch (which was now owned by Frieda), where he and she had lived for many years.

One of the major misconceptions about D.H. Lawrence has been the label “revolutionary.” Lawrence did not put the blame for man’s ills on any institution, but on what he considered to be the erroneous Christian concept of man’s nature (Spilka 12). He opposed the belief in ideal values or “mental consciousness,” instead placing in his works an emphasis on “blood consciousness,” an insistence on the fullness of being.

The other important fact about Lawrence’s childhood is that from an early age he was withdrawn from the ordinary ways of his fellows. He was, in the local dialect, a madarse, that is, a sissy (Buckley 3). His only companions were the children of the Haggs farm (the Wiley Farm of Sons and Lovers) (Buckley 4).

D.H. Lawrence was, and is still today, the subject of turbulent controversy. His sexual philosophy, anti-Christian outlook, and scorn of modern civilization have given rise to bitter critical attacks and misrepresentation, obscuring the extent of his artistic achievement (Spilka 7). Lawrence was a complex human being, whose inner and outer life were characterized by extreme contrasts (Spilka 8)

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