D. H. Lawrence
(1885–1930) was the first British
novelist and short story writer from a genuinely working
class background. He grew up with a coal miner father
and teacher mother, with whom he had an intense and
painful relationship. Despite ill-health, he travelled widely
and wrote continuously during his life – novels, stories,
essays, travel diaries. He wrote with a direct and fresh style
about human relationships, and was often in trouble with
the law for his graphic descriptions of sex