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Biography
Scope and Content
Expanded Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Collection of Material By, About, or Relating to D.H. and Frieda Lawrence
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0654
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet
(3 boxes)
Physical Description:
1 oversize box
Date (inclusive): circa 1910-1930
Abstract: D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was a novelist, essayist and poet. He became best known as the author of
Lady Chatterly's Lover (1928), banned for many years for its explicit treatment of sex. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts and
corrected proofs, a painting, and ephemera.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Gift of Willard Hougland, 1956.
- Ben Abramson, purchase.
- Gift of Lawrence Clark Powell.
- Argus, purchase, 1953.
- Gift of Majl Ewing, 1956.
- Gift of Ben Grauer, 1960.
- Gift of Henry Miller, 1962.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Material By, About, or Relating to D.H. and Frieda Lawrence (Collection 654). UCLA
Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England; became a novelist, essayist and poet; his first
major novel,
Sons and Lovers (1913), was followed by the more symbolic
The Rainbow (1915) and
Women in Love (1920); was persecuted for his treatment of sex in
The Rainbow, as well as for his elopement with his wife Frieda (then married to another man); Lawrence left England in 1919, living in
Italy, Australia, and New Mexico, and writing many travel essays; became best known as the author of
Lady Chatterly's Lover (1928), banned for many years for its explicit treatment of sex; died on March 2, 1930 in Vence, France.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts and corrected proofs, a painting, and ephemera. Includes a group of early
letters from Lawrence to Mrs. Rachel (Annand) Taylor, and correspondence pertaining to posthumous publications of the works
of Lawrence, partly by Frieda Lawrence, and by Willard Hougland and E.W. Tedlock, Jr. Also includes the galley sheets of Lawrence's
first novel,
The White Peacock, with copious corrections and revisions throughout. Also contains the first oil painting done by Lawrence in Italy.
Expanded Scope and Content
The D.H. Lawrence papers are expanding around a nucleus received as a gift from Willard Hougland in November, 1955. Mr. Hougland
has since added to the collection and other items have been given and purchased.
Among the outstanding items in this collection are a group of early unpublished letters from Lawrence to Mrs. Rachel (Annand)
Taylor, the galley sheets of Lawrence's first novel,
The White Peacock, with copious corrections and revisions throughout, the first oil painting done by Lawrence in Italy as well as correspondence
pertaining to posthumous publications of the works of Lawrence, partly by Frieda Lawrence, by Willard Hougland and E.W. Tedlock,
Jr.
Letters and Correspondence: 1-4, 20, 21, 24
Manuscripts, corrected proofs: 7-18, 23, 25
Painting, ephemera: 6, 13, 22
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Letters and correspondence.
- Manuscripts, corrected proofs.
- Painting, ephemera.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Manuscripts for publication
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Archives.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Archives
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)