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SERIES ADVISOR: PAUL POPLAWSKI

D. H. LAWRENCE AND ITALY

DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE was born into a miner’s family in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885, the fourth of five children. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911. In 1912 Lawrence went to Germany and Italy with Frieda Weekley, the German wife of a professor at Nottingham University College, where Lawrence had studied; she divorced, and they were married on their return to England in 1914. Lawrence had published Sons and Lovers in 1913; but The Rainbow, completed in 1915, was suppressed, and for three years he could not find a publisher for Women in Love, which he first completed in 1917. After the First World War he travelled extensively in Europe, Australia, America and Mexico. He returned to Europe from America in 1925, and lived mainly in Italy and France. His last novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was published in 1928 but was banned in England and America. In 1930 he died in Vence, in the south of France, at the age of forty-four.

Born in Manchester in 1954, TIM PARKS grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He has written twelve novels including Europa, Destiny and, most recently, Rapids, as well as two non-fiction accounts of life in northern Italy, and two collections of essays, literary and historical. His many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Tabucchi, Calvino and Calasso.

MICHAEL FREDERICK HERBERT teaches English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he has lived since 1977. Among his publications are editions of various writings by D. H. Lawrence: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays, Selected Critical Writings and (as co-editor) The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories.

PAUL POPLAWSKI is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester. He is a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Edition of Lawrence’s Works and his recent publications include the revised third edition of A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge, 2001), and Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism (Greenwood, 2003).