D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Son’s and Lovers, an intensely realistic novel set in a small English mining town, much akin to the town in which he was raised. The son of a miner, Lawrence grew up with a father much like the character of Mr. Morel in Son’s and Lovers. Morel (as the father is called) is an ill tempered, uneducated, and rather crude man. A man with little ability to express his feelings to his wife and family, who love him dearly despite the fact that he was seldom cordial to any of them.

“Lydia (Lawrence’s mother) was high-minded and pious. She had been a schoolteacher and had written poetry. She hated dirt and drink and poverty.” (Segar, Keith; pg.11)

Lydia met her husband Arthur at a family function and they married only a year later. “It was an attraction of opposites which could not last. Arthur was irresponsible and poor.” (pg.11) While the two loved each other dearly, their differences cause

1. D.H. Lawrence/ The Writer and His Work, Niven, Alastair

The Bottoms as described by Lawrence in the novel Sons and Lovers, was, I’m sure much alike his home town, which consisted mainly of “ugly mid- Victorian shops” (Segar, Keith; pg.9) and the poor dwellings of the towns miners. The Town’s name was Edgewood, and it was not perhaps as rundown or dilapidated as the town he created for the novel, yet it was by no means advanced as a city like London was. The town did have a tram that “ran from Nottingham to Ripley” (pg.9) that ran down Victoria Street, where Lawrence was born. Even the tram was not enough to make the town a cultural center that would attract outsiders.

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2. D.H. Lawrence/ The World of the Five Major Novels, Sanders, Scott

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