D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage - Softcover

Maddox, Brenda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671687123 ISBN 13: 9780671687120

Publisher: Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Lawrence met Baroness Frieda von Richtofen Weekley in 1912.The author Brenda Maddox says that she was in search of a new interest,he never had a chance.This is a richly detailed study of a vulnerable sensitive Lawrence,a hilarious mimic,a lover of nature,an inspired teacher a brilliant journalist and a married man.The author examines Lawrence's restless life through the greatest contradiction in it,his marriage.Frieda was even more defiant of conventional morality than he was.It was a mismatch made in heaven but it lasted until his tragic death.

About this title

Product Description:

A personal look at a controversial literary figure examines his views on women, marriage, and sexuality, challenging current beliefs about his racism, adultery, repressed homosexuality, and his odd but enduring marriage to Frieda

About the Author:

Brenda Maddox is an award-winning biographer whose work has been translated into ten languages. Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Silver PEN Award, and the French Prix du Mailleur Livre Etranger. Her life of D. H. Lawrence won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1974, and Yeats's Ghosts, on the married life of W. B. Yeats, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 1998. She has been Home Affairs Editor for the Economist, has served as chairman of the Association of British Science Writers and is a member of the Royal Society's Science and Society Committee. She lives in London and Mid-Wales.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0671687123
• ISBN 13: 9780671687120
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 620