Who was the real DH Lawrence?

Who was the real DH Lawrence?

“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind,” writes DH Lawrence in Lady Chatterley’s Lover – a sentence that sums up the attitudes towards sex in early-20th-century Britain that he rebelled against.Both Lady Chatterley (first published privately in Italy in 1928) and 1915’s The Rainbow were the subjects of obscenity trials in the UK, and the explicit nature of Lawrence’s writing ea…