D.H Lawrence was a Forster’s friend. Lawrence born on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, near Nottingham. He had a very bad health since his birth and his life's direction was dictated by his lungs.. In 1908 he became a qualified teacher and took up a post at Croydon.

Lawrence wrote during his free time. In January 1911 his first novel, The White Peacock was published, but the elation he may have felt from this success was obliterated by the overshadowing death of his mother, from cancer, in the previous month.

His narrative career is the following:

Novels

The White Peacock (1911) is Lawrence's first novel. Sons and Lovers (1913) is generally regarded as his first masterpiece.

The Rainbow (1915) and Women In Love (written in 1916-17, released in 1920) were originally designed as one effort, separated by a few major cataclysms like the banning of The Rainbow and the First World War. Lawrence was writing ahead of his time, and at times he went further than he was willing to let his audience see. He omitted the planned "Prologue" chapter to Women in Love from the final edition, for example. That is now available in the Penguin 1995 edition as part of "Appendix III," and adds some intriguing insights to Birkin, Gerald, and Hermione as they were originally conceived.

The "Leadership Series" is an odd collection. Out of them all, I would say The Plumed Serpent (1923) is the... most surreal?

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) is his most famous novel, perhaps for the four-letter words, or for the length of time that it was banned... until 1959 in the United States, 1960 in Great Britain. To me, his work from this period is better represented in short story, poetry, painting, and essay forms.

Short Stories and Novellas

Lawrence's short stories offer brilliant flashes. He can pack so much into such little space, and without some of the repetitive style that marks his longer works.