Success and Catastrophe: 1913–15

Abstract

When Lawrence returned to England in June 1913, he was known in literary circles primarily as the author of two novels with a small but good reputation, and as the author of some interesting stories and poems in the English Review. From the summer of 1913 onwards, however, he would be ‘the author of Sons and Lovers’: his reviewers (and publishers’ readers) thereafter would frequently compare his subsequent works with Sons and Lovers, and often lament the falling-off they found. And the novel remained his most widely read work until Lady Chatterley’s Lover was published in 1928.