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David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1885 in Eastwood,a mining town serving ten collieries in the Nottingham Coalfields. His father was a miner at Brinsley Colliery and his mother, a former pupil teacher, worked in a lacemaking factory. In 1902 Lawrence also became a pupil teacher, and qualified as teacher in 1908. At this time he was already writing, and had completed the first draft of his first novel, The White Peacock.
In 1908, Lawrence moved to London, where he initially worked as teacher until 1911, when after a second bout of pneumonia, he became a full time writer. In 1912, he became involved with Frieda von Richthofen, who at the time was married to Ernest Weekley, Professor of Modern Languages in Nottingham. They eloped together to Metz, at the time in Germany, and, after her divorce, were formally married in England ten days before the start of the First World.
The couple did not have an easy war, and left the country in 1919. Despite publishing the collection of short stories, England my England, in 1922, Lawrence only returned twice for short visits in his lifetime. He died of complications from tuberculosis on 2nd March 1930, in Vence on the Côte d’Azur.
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This edition of The Rainbow is adapted from the first edition published in 1915. It is not intended as, and should not be treated as, an academic text. Where appropriate the spelling and grammar have been modernised (British English).
Author Illustation: Elliot and Fry Photographers Ltd., David Herbert Lawrence, London, 1915
Cover Illustation: Georges Seurat, The Rainbow, 1883 (detail).
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