More than one world
P.N. Furbank, 5 December 1991
D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912
by John Worthen.
Cambridge, 624 pp., £25, September 1991,0 521 25419 1 Show More
by John Worthen.
Cambridge, 624 pp., £25, September 1991,
The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. Vol. VI: 1927-28
edited by James Boulton, Margaret Boulton and Gerald Lacy.
Cambridge, 645 pp., £50, September 1991,0 521 23115 9 Show More
edited by James Boulton, Margaret Boulton and Gerald Lacy.
Cambridge, 645 pp., £50, September 1991,
“... very much on the minds of the authors of the new three-volume biography of D.H. Lawrence, of which John Worthen’s D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912 is the first instalment. The theory, as Worthen explains it, is that having three different people write the life will be ‘an explicit (even dramatic) acknowledgment that, however, important the ... ”