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Sons and lovers5/27/2023 ![]() FR Leavis did, when he enrolled Lawrence in the "great tradition" of the English novel, comprising Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad. A century of readers have reached for the same adjective. "It is quite a great novel" "I remember you telling me, at the beginning, it would be great. And the word he used to Garnett recurred, in letters to friends. ![]() But he was proud when a finished copy reached him in Italy. He was already on to the next thing (a draft of what would become The Rainbow), and had "scarcely the patience" to correct the proofs. Beneath these worries lay a deeper worry, about the text itself: "I am a great admirer of my own stuff while it's new, but after a while I'm not so gone on it," he admitted. He worried about the dust jacket, and arranged for a friend, Ernest Collings, to design one (like the foreword, it wasn't used). ![]() He worried whether it might benefit from a foreword (and belatedly posted one to Garnett). ![]() ![]() He worried about the title (he had originally called the book "Paul Morel "). "Read my novel – it's a great novel." Lawrence's immodesty is forgivable: the book had been through four drafts, and after two years of struggle he was hugely relieved to have it finished. 'I tell you I've written a great book," DH Lawrence informed his publisher Edward Garnett, after sending him the manuscript of Sons and Lovers in November 1912. ![]()
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