[net.books] D.H. Lawrence

tortorino@hamstr.DEC (Sandy T., MKO1-2/H32, 264-5977) (06/07/85)

>> Remember they said DH Lawrence (for example) wrote "garbage" and
>> "trash" when his spicier works first came out.

>Er, DH Lawrence is a her.  I think her works, spicier and
>otherwise, aren't really very good.  She insists on explaining
>what her characters are like, rather than showing it, and
>I've never been able to identify with any of them.


	Someone's been drinking cheap whiskey!  D.H. Lawrence was always
	a "him."

	According to Mark Schorer:

	"As is known to all who read, D.H. Lawrence was born, the son
	of a coal miner and a schoolteacher, in the village of
	Eastwood in the English midlands of Nottinghamshire . . ."

(From the introduction to "Lady Chatterley's Lover," Grove Press, NY)