what are good websites for research on DH lawrence's hometown ?

Answer 1

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born and spent his formative years in the coal mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. His birthplace, in Eastwood, 8a Victoria Street, is now a museum.

Nottinghamshire, England, six miles west of Nottingham. It is the northern most town in the Borough of Broxtowe. Its main industry was formerly coal mining, but the mines have now all shut down.

Eastwood is one of the few places where the distinctive dialect of East Midlands English is extensively spoken. Eastwood in referred to as 'Aes'wood' in this dialect.

It is also known for the meetings of the Nottinghamshire coal miners, at the Sun Inn, in the early nineteenth century. It was there that the decision to build the Midland Counties Railway was made, which later became part of the fledgling Midland Railway.

The local football team is Eastwood Town, known as the Badgers.

Answer 2

Lawrence, D (David) H (Herbert) (1885-1930) British novelist, poet and painter. The son of a Nottinghamshire miner, he was encouraged by his mother to become a teacher; he published his first novel The White Peacock, in 1911. The semiautobiographical Sons and Lovers (1913) estabished his reputation. In 1912 he eloped with Frieda Weekly, the German wife of a professor at Nottingham University College and a cousin of Baron von Richthofen. Their extensive travels provided material for the novels Kangaroo (1923), reflecting a stay in Australia, and The Plumed Serpent (1926), set in Mexico and published after they had lived several years in Taos, New Mexico. He also wrote, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover and many poems. He died of tuberculosis in Vence (France).