![]() He could also be a virulent misogynist, both in fiction and in life his hatred of women may have expressed fear of the feminine in himself.īut Lawrence loved women too his fiction also abounds with extravagant praise of womanhood and the eternal union of two sexes. He often found himself powerfully attracted to other men, from whom he violently recoiled. But Lawrence's homosexuality may have been of the repressed variety, which can turn nasty. If David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) had sex with a man, she tells us, he had it only once, with a Cornish farmer. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage," and in the end she never quite settles it either. The issue of Lawrence's homosexuality haunts Brenda Maddox's "D. ![]() "Women in Love" ends on this oddly querulous note, as if Lawrence were annoyed at himself for failing to settle the matter. ![]()
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