D. H. Lawrence during World War I - the difficult years that have been mainly overlooked by Lawrence scholars.
Covers the span of nineteen months during world War I, when Lawrence and his German wife, Frieda, lived in a cottage by the sea in Cornwall, and were suspected of spying for the German submarine crews operating off the Cornish coast.The war coincided with the crucial time in Lawrence's life when he was reconsidering all the values connected with human relations and himself. His marriage was in trouble, he was uncertain of his sexual preferences, and he was tormented by the long list of casualties from the front and the mass patriotism around him. It was the end of the old world as he knew it, and he reacted by going back to the land, and by forming an intense relationship with a Cornish farmer who lived nearby.
The story of Ron Hull, paralyzed in a surgical accident back in the dreaded polio epidemic days, was able to overcome most of the stigma and stereotypes and "pass for normal" for 30 years. As Ron's paralysis increased gradually through the next 20
