Journalist, Mancunian, chief interests food, drink, books, not necessariy in that order......
Journalist, Mancunian, chief interests food, drink, books, not necessariy in that order......
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D H Lawrence never bettered this novel , largely based on his own youth and childhood in Eastwood, near Nottingham. Lawrence was the product of a working-class mining family and his rise to prominence as an author highly unusual for someone of his background. Later on, he veered towards pomposity and snobbishness in his views on ordinary people but this work is a lovingly written tribute to his past. Paul Morel, the protagonist, is of course based on Lawrence himself and the cloying relationship with Mrs Morel also based on Lawrence's own rather obsessive relationship with his mother. He always used real-life figures in his books and "Miriam" is based on his first love Jessie Chambers. Worldly Clara, who seduced him , also an alter ego for a married woman he took up with as a youth. Lawrence's prose in Sons And Lovers is simple and straightforward, with none of the moralising and arcane theory which later on rather marred his work. It's therefore the most readable and owes more to George Eliot than Virginia Woolf, who he admired greatly. In recent year, Lawrence has become unfashionable but however much some of his other works may be neglected Sons And Lovers remains a classic. If you read nothing else of his oevre, this one is worth investing in
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