"It is morning again, and she is still here..." These are the words DH Lawrence wrote to a friend describing his terminally ill mother in 1913. "I look at mother my and think 'O Heaven-is this what life brings us to?' You see mother has had a devilish married life, for nearly forty years- and this is the conclusion- no relief."

David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in central England. He was the fourth child of a struggling, illiterate, uneducated coal miner who drank heavily. His mother was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Poverty,

as well as the friction between his parents, dominated Lawrence's childhood. In a letter from 1910 to the poet Rachel Annand Taylor he writes: "Their marriage life has been one carnal, bloody fight. I was born hating my father: as early as ever I can remember, I shivered with horror when he touched me. He was very bad before I was born." Encouraged by his mother, Lawrence became interested in the learning and the arts. He was educated at Nottingham High School, and later to Nottingham University, to which he had won scholarships.

Lawrence, a sickly child from the start, was born in 1885 into a life of conflict. He had bronchitis a mere two weeks after he was born, and lung problems would plague him all his life, eventually developing into repeated bouts of pneumonia which permanently weakened his lungs. His father, Arthur, was a typical example of a working-class miner: a huge, rough man, poorly educated, prone to great rage and possessing a love of ale; he must have seemed a fearful figure to his family. Lawrence's mother -- perhaps the greatest influence on his life -- came from different stock. Lydia Beardsall Lawrence came from a middle class family that had experienced financial strife. This decline in social status had humiliated Lydia's father. "His whole family felt this shame, and Lydia swore that her own children's success would vindicate her father. She continually strove to better the family's social standing "(Niven, DH Lawrence: The Writer and His Work 16). She pushed her children to succeed in school and in life. She herself opened a shop in their home, which was something rarely done by women of that time. Living in near poverty, his mother was determined that young David should not become a miner like his father. At that time, one of the few ways for a poor person to better himself was through education. Lawrence's mother Lydia recognized this, and encouraged it in young Lawrence. Although he excelled in his studies, the fact that he was seven years old when he started school (because of his health) hampered his social life. He had few friends in school and instead sought out the company of his younger sister, Ada.

The girls rushed at him, clenched their hands on him and pulled at him: or they rushed at him and pushed him, butted him with all their might: or they struck him wild blows. He ducked and cringed and struck sideways--He lay at last quite still, with face averted, as an animal lies when it is defeated and at the mercy of the captor. (Lawrence 343)

Now that some facts have been established to show how DH Lawrence's writings were affected by his mother, as well as his upbringing, an analysis of two of his works can be given with the most impact. The two very similar stories, "Tickets, Please" and "Monkey Nuts" show two women at the turn of the 20th century who present completely new and independent viewpoints of their world and the roll of women in it.

Characters like Annie in "Tickets, Please," are strong enough to overpower men. In the story a group of young, female tram conductors turn violent on a philandering man who they feel i

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