D.H.Lawrence – biographies & bibliographies
arranged in chronological order of publication
1. Bibliographies, Handbooks, Journals
Warren Roberts, A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence, 1963; revised. [The revised edition of this important Lawrence bibliography includes a section on the criticism].
Graham Holderness, Who’s Who in D.H. Lawrence, 1976.
Keith Sagar, D.H.Lawrence: A Calendar of His Works, 1979.
Keith Sagar, A D.H.Lawrence Handbook, 1982.
James C Cowan, D.H.Lawrence: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him, Vol I (1909-60) 1982; Vol II (1961-75) 1985.
Thomas Jackson Rice, D.H.Lawrence: A Guide to Research, 1983.
The D H Lawrence Review, founded in 1968 by James C Cowan at the University of Delaware, is published three times a year. DHLR includes regular bibliographical updates as well as essays on a wide range of subjects to do with Lawrence, and reviews of recent work. Etudes Laurentiennes, founded in 1985, is published by the University of Paris X [Nanterre].
The Complete Critical Guide to D. H. Lawrence is a good introduction to Lawrence criticism. Includes a potted biography of Lawrence, an outline of the stories, novels, plays, and poetry, and pointers towards the main critical writings – from contemporaries T.S. Eliot and E.M. Forster to critics of the present day. Also includes a thorough bibliography which covers biography, criticism in books and articles, plus pointers towards specialist Lawrence journals.
2. Select Biography
R. West, D.H. Lawrence, London: Martin Secker, 1930.
A. Lawrence, Young Lorenzo: Early Life of D.H.Lawrence, Containing Hitherto Unpublished Letters and Articles and reproductions of Pictures, Florence: G. Orioli, 1931.
A. Lawrence and S.G. Gelder, Young Lorenzo: Early Life of D.H.Lawrence, Containing Hitherto Unpublished Letters and Articles and reproductions of Pictures, London: Martin Secker, 1932.
John Middleton Murry, Son of Woman: The Story of D.H.Lawrence, London: Jonathan Cape, 1931.
M. Dodge Luhan, Loenzo in Taos, New York: Knopf, 1932.
Aldous Huxley (ed), The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, London: Heinemann, 1932.
John Middleton Murry, Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence, London: Jonathan Cape, 1933.
John Middleton Murry, Between Two Worlds: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935.
D. Brett, Lawrence and Brett: A Friendship, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1933.
Catherine Carswell, The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D.H.Lawrence, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.
Frieda Lawrence, Not I, But the Wind…, New York: Viking Press, 1934.
E.T. [Jessie Chambers], D.H. Lawrence: A Personal Record, London: Cape, 1935.
K. Merrild, A Poet and Two Painters, London: Routledge, 1938.
Frieda Lawrence, The Memoirs and Correspondence [ed Tedlock] 1964.
E. Brewster and A. Brewster, D.H. Lawrence: reminiscences and correspondence, London: Secker, 1934.
Piero Nardi, La Vita di D.H.Lawrence, 1947. [The first full biography of DHL]
Richard Aldington, D.H.Lawrence: Portrait of a Genius, But…, London: Heinemann, 1950.
Harry T. Moore, The Life and Works of D.H. Lawrence, London: Unwin Books, 1951.
E. Nehls (ed), D.H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, 3 vols, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.
Harry T. Moore, A D.H. Lawrence Miscellany, London: Heinemann, 1961.
Harry T. Moore (ed), The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence, London: Heinemann, 1962.
Harry T. Moore, The Priest of Love, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1954, revised 1974.
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle], Bid Me To Live, New York: Grove Press, 1960.
E.W. Tedlock Jr (ed), Frieda Lawrence: the Memoirs and Correspondence, London: Heinemann, 1961.
H. Corke, D.H. Lawrence: The Croydon Years, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965.
Harry T. Moore and Warren Roberts, D.H.Lawrence and his World [illustrated] 1966.
Edward Nehls (ed), D.H.Lawrence: A Composite Biography (3 vols, 1957-9).
Emile Delavenay, [trans. K.M. Delavenay] D.H.Lawrence: The Man and His Work. The Formative Years: [1885-1919], London: Heinemann, 1972.
Robert Lucas, Frieda Lawrence: The Story of Frieda von Richtofen and D.H.Lawrence, 1973.
H. Corke, In Our Infancy: An Autobiography Part I: 1882-1912, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Paul Delany, D.H.Lawrence’s Nightmare: The Writer and his Circle in the Years of the Great War, Hassocks: Harvester, 1979.
Keith Sagar, The Life of D.H.Lawrence: An Illustrated Biography, 1980.
G. Neville (ed. C. Baron), A Memoir of D.H. Lawrence: (The Betrayal), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Anthony Burgess, Flame Into Being: The Life and Works of D.H.Lawrence, 1985.
Keith Sagar, D.H.Lawrence: Life Into Art, 1985.
John Worthen, D.H.Lawrence: A Literary Life, 1989.
Jeffrey Meyers, D.H.Lawrence: A Biography, 1990.
John Worthen, D.H.Lawrence: The Early Years: 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D.H. Lawrence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Elaine Feinstein, Lawrence’s Women: The Intimate Life of D.H. Lawrence, London: Harper Collins, 1993.
Peter Preston, A D.H.Lawrence Chronology, 1994.
R. Jackson, Frieda Lawrence, Including ‘Not I, But the Wind’ and other Autobiographical Writings, London: Pandora, 1994.
Brenda Maddox, The Married Man: A Biography of D.H.Lawrence, London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1994.
Janet Byrne, A Genius for Living: A Biography of Frieda Lawrence, London: Bloomsbury, 1995.
M. Kinkead-Weekes, D.H.Lawrence: Triumph to Exile: 1912-1922, The Cambridge Biography of D.H.Lawrence 1885-1930, vol. 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
J.T. Boulton (ed), The Selected Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
D. Ellis, D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930, The Cambridge Biography of D.H.Lawrence 1885-1930, vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
© Roy Johnson 1999 with thanks to Damian Grant
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