The author traces Lawrence's pilgrimage from a working-class childhood through his years of hard-won recognition to his death in France after the scandalous publication of "Lady Chatterley's Lover", at the age of 44. Describing his tempestuous marriage to Frieda ven Richthofen and his intense friendships, it also illuminates Lawrence's complex method of intermingling autobiography and fiction, and shows us the perfect congruence of the defiant artist and the courageous man. The author reveals the true circumstances of Lawrence's mother's death, his physical sterility, the reasons for the suppression of "The Rainbow" and his homosexual relationship with the Cornish farmer, William Henry Hocking.
- ISBN10 0333592085
- ISBN13 9780333592083
- Publish Date 23 July 1993 (first published August 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Papermac
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 448
- Language English