Lawrence and The Rocking-Horse Winner Flashcards
(D.H. Lawrence) born in the English … and became a …. He resented the ugliness made by ..
Midlands; schoolmaster; miners
(D.H. Lawrence) Lawrence left his job in 1912 and moved to …. Hoping to secure a lectureship, he visited his former teacher … before leaving England and thereby became friends with his wife … who was a …
Germany; Ernest Weekley; Frieda; German baroness
(D.H. Lawrence) Frieda Weekley … and … with Lawrence to Germany. They then traveled around … and … together. Lawrence wrote … and began work on … and … in Italy
abandoned her kids; fled; Austria; Italy; Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow; Women in Love
(D.H. Lawrence) Sons and Lovers sparked moral controversy because, according to John Galsworthy, the .. parts were too ..
love; graphic
(D.H. Lawrence) Lawrence believed that industrialized England was … and … and embraced a belief in …-putting one’s … self in balance with one’s …
He saw the Victorian world as … and …
corrosive; oppressive; blood knowledge; animal; intellect; over-civilized; prudish
(D.H. Lawrence) Lawrence said in England that the “source of all life and knowledge is in … and .., and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two”
man; woman
(D.H. Lawrence) Lawrence despised WW1. There was war in his personal life, he and Frieda were constantly fighting
In 1920, he published a limited edition of Women in Love which was considered “a loathsome study of … leading youth to unspeakable …”
sex depravity; disaster
(D.H. Lawrence) Around 1920, a wealthy American, …, invited Lawrence to come to …
She was interested in … and … and liked Lawrence’s work, namely …
Mabel Dodge Luhan; Taos, New Mexico; art; Indian Culture; Sea and Sardinia
(D.H. Lawrence) Sea and Sardinia: Lawrence said that to be a whole, humans must move forward to the “…, … lands where the salt has not lost its savor”
unknown, unworked
(D.H. Lawrence) Lawrence loved New Mexico but not Americans, saying that they were a host of people who must all have a sense of .. somewhere, striving to make good over everybody else
inferiority complex
(D.H. Lawrence) After being diagnosed with …, Lawrence moved to … and wrote continuously, producing …-which he is most remembered for
the book focuses on the …, the … of a woman
tuberculosis; Genoa, Italy; Lady Chatterley’s Lover; sleeping beauty; sexual awakening
(D.H. Lawrence) Lady Chatterley’s lover is about the mistress of an English manor who falls in love with her …
her husband Sir Clifford Chatterley is an industrialist and intellectual who is … whereas the gamekeeper is the admired “…” man
husband’s gamekeeper; despised; natural
(D.H. Lawrence) Lady Chatterley’s lover brought a new wave of anger, it was banned in Britain under the …
but this brought it new publicity and his works were then in demand
Obscene Publicans Act
(D.H. Lawrence) Lawrence and … were enemies
T.S. Eliot
(The Rocking-Horse Winner) the story begins with the description of a beautiful woman who married for love. She didn’t marry … and her love eventually died
well
