Born on Sept. 11, 1885 in a small coal-mining village of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire in England, David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence was one of the most versatile and influential writers in 20th-century literature. Best known for his novels, Lawrence was also an accomplished poet, short story writer, critic, essayist and travel writer.
The White Peacock was his first novel.
Apart from some well known essays, D H Lawrence was also known for the controversial themes in a few of his novels—exploring sensuality in an over-intellectualized world—and trying to censor his writing overshadowed the work of a master craftsman and profound thinker. The Rainbow in 1915, and working on Women in Love. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) are some examples.
Her Turn
Her Turn was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. It was the thirteenth of his sixty-seven short stories. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he knew intimately. Her Turn describes how couples deal with the pressure that lack of money can cause in a marriage.
The story is one of domestic argument, being the altercation between a miner and his wife over the sharing of strike pay.
Lawrence keeps the story light-hearted, almost comical but the tensions of married life in hard times are just below the surface.
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