DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE WAS A WRITER BORN AT EASTWOOD IN 1885.

HIS PARENTS COME FROM A HIGHER SOCIAL CLASS, INFACT HIS FATHER WAS A COAL MINER AND HIS MOTHER WAS A TEACHER. THE TENSION BETWEEN HIS PARENTS INFLUENCED HIS WORKS AND HIS FUTURE LIFE. FIRST, HE WORKED AS AN ELEMENTARY TEACHER AND THEN HE WENT TO NOTTHINGAM UNIVERSITY. IN 1908 HE STARTED TO WRITE SONS AND LOVERS , HIS FIRST NOVEL, BY !ESSIE CHAMBERS, A FARMER"S DAUGHTER. HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH !ESSIE WAS OFTEN FRUSTATED, BECAUSE HIS MOTHER WAS A OVER# PROTECTIVE. IN 1910 HIS MOTHER DIED AND LAWRENCE MET FRIEDA AND HE SPENT THE REST OF HIS LIFE WITH HER. THEY TRAVELLED A LOT TOGHETER AND THEY SPENT A PERIOD IN ITALY, PRECISELY IN SICILY WHERE LAWRENCE WAS IMPRESSED BY GIOVANNI VERGA"S WORKS, TRANSLATED MASTRO DON GESUALDO IN ENGLISH. HE DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS IN FRANCE IN 19$0. SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LAWRENCE"S WORKS THAT WE CAN REMEMBER ARE SONS AND LOVERS , COMPLETED IN 19$0, THE RAINBOW , WOMAN IN LOVE AND LADY CHATTERLEY ,HIS LAST NOVEL PUBLISHED PRIVATELY IN FLORENCE IN 19%8 BECAUSE THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITH CENSURESHIP IN ENGLAND.