Table of Contents
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D. H. Lawrence
Saki
Mary Shelley
Ellis Parker Butler
Anthony Trollope
Zona Gale
Emma Orczy
Don Marquis
Charles W. Chesnutt
Kathleen Norris
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Honoré de Balzac
M. R. James
Banjo Paterson
Bret Harte
Henry Lawson
W. W. Jacobs
Charlotte M. Yonge
L. Frank Baum
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
O. Henry
William Dean Howells
T. S. Arthur
Stephen Leacock
Sherwood Anderson
Robert Barr
Lafcadio Hearn
Giovanni Verga
Hamlin Garland
Émile Zola
Stewart Edward White
Sarah Orne Jewett
Willa Cather
George Ade
Robert W. Chambers
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Lord Dunsany
George Gissing
Théophile Gautier
Paul Heyse
Selma Lagerlöf
Thomas Burke
Edith Nesbit
Arthur Morrison
Stacy Aumonier
John Galsworthy
E. W. Hornung
Ernest Bramah
Sheridan Le Fanu
About the Publisher
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the fourth child of Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall.
After attending Beauvale Board School he won a scholarship to Nottingham High School. On leaving school in 1901 he was employed for a short time as a clerk at the Nottingham firm of Haywards, manufacturers of surgical appliances, and from 1902 as a pupil teacher at the British School in Eastwood.
He attended the Pupil-Teacher Centre in Ilkeston from 1904 and in 1906 took up a teacher-training scholarship at University College, Nottingham. After qualifying in 1908 he took up a teaching post at the Davidson School in Croydon, remaining there until 1912.
In early 1912, after a period of serious illness, Lawrence left his teaching post at Croydon to return to Nottinghamshire, shortly afterwards eloping to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the wife of Professor Ernest Weekley. They returned to England in 1914 prior to the outbreak of war and were married at Kensington Register Office on 14 July. Confined to England during the war years, the Lawrences spent much of this time at Tregerthen in Cornwall.
In 1919 they left England once more, embarking on a period of extensive travelling within Europe and then further afield to Ceylon, Australia, Mexico and New Mexico.
His health continued to deteriorate and Lawrence returned to Europe with Frieda in 1925. During his last years Lawrence spent much of his time in Italy making only brief visits to England, the last in 1926. He died on 2 March 1930 at Vence in the south of France.
Lawrence was a prolific writer - of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, and criticism. His works are heavily autobiographical and the experiences of his early years in Nottinghamshire continued to exert a profound influence throughout his life.
