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Case Study One “Tickets, please” by D. H. Lawrence A Brief Introduction to D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) An English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. Life and career born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1885. The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner, and Lydia a former pupil teacher who, owing to her familys financial difficulties, had to do manual work in a lace factory. Lawrence spent his formative years in the coal mining town of Eastwood. His working-class background and the tensions between his parents provided the raw material for a number of his early works. Lawrence would return to this locality and often wrote about nearby Underwood, calling it; the country of my heart,“ as a setting for much of his fiction. The young Lawrence attended Beauvale Board School (1891 -1898), later Nottingham High School. He left in 1901, working for three months as a junior clerk at Haywoods surgical appliances factory, but a severe bout of pneumonia, reportedly the result of being accosted by a group of factory girls, ended this career. 1902 to 1906, Lawrence served as a pupil teacher at the British School, Eastwood. He went on to become a full-time student and received a teaching certificate from University College, Nottingham, in 1908. During these early years he was working on his first poems, some short stories, and a draft of a novel. At the end of 1907 he won a short story competition in the Nottingham Guardian, the first time that he had gained any wider recognition for his literary talents. Lawrence was a rebellious and profoundly polemical writer with radical views, who regarded sex, the primitive subconscious, and nature as cures to what he considered the evils of modern industrialized society. Tremendously prolific, his work was often uneven in quality, and he was a continual source of controversy, ofte