Worthen, John

D.H. Lawrence : the life of an outsider by John Worthen ( Book )
15 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and held by 1,522 libraries worldwide
"Quoting extensively from rarely seen letters and drawing on a wealth of original research, John Worthen tells Lawrence's story from the inside for the first time: following him from his awkward and intense youth in a Midlands colliery town; through his troubled and turbulent relationship with Frieda and his equally fiery friendships with figures such as Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Aldous Huxley: through the years of exile abroad in Europe and New Mexico during which he produced his most vital and provocative writing; down to his premature death from tuberculosis in the South of France at the age of 44." "This biography offers a bold reappraisal of the man who, throughout his life, considered himself to be an outsider and whose place within literary and social history has remained challenging and changeable long after his death. What emerges is an intimate and absolutely compelling study of an individual in angry revolt against his class, culture and country, and engaged in a passionate struggle to live in accordance with his beliefs."--BOOK JACKET.

D.H. Lawrence, the early years, 1885-1912 by John Worthen ( Book )
11 editions published between 1991 and 1992 in English and held by 1,321 libraries worldwide

Women in love by D. H Lawrence ( Book )
23 editions published between 1987 and 2007 in English and held by 1,287 libraries worldwide
Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen are the two intelligent, incisive, and observant sisters whose temperamental differences spark an ongoing debate regarding their society and their inner lives. The two very different sisters pursue thrilling, torrid affairs, but their search for more mature emotional relationships reveals some startling information about themselves as well as their lovers, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich.

The gang : Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802 by John Worthen ( Book )
8 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 940 libraries worldwide
Publisher's description: Over a dramatic six-month period in 1802, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, and the two Hutchinson sisters Sara and Mary formed a close-knit group whose members saw or wrote to one another constantly. Coleridge, whose marriage was collapsing, was in love with Sara, and Wordsworth was about to be married to Mary, who would be moving in beside Dorothy in their Grasmere cottage. Throughout this extraordinary period both poets worked on some of their finest and most familiar poems, Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode and Wordsworth's Immortality Ode. In this fascinating book, John Worthen recreates the group's intertwined lives and the effect they had on one another. Drawing on the group's surviving letters, and poems, as well as Dorothy's diaries, Worthen throws new light on many old problems. He examines the prehistory of the events of 1802, the dynamics of the group between March and July, the summer of 1802, when Wordsworth and Dorothy visited Calais to see his ex-mistress and his daughter Caroline, and the wedding between Wordsworth and Mary in October of that year. In an epilogue he looks forward to the ways in which relationships changed during 1803, concentrating on a single day--11 January 1803--in the lives of the group.

D.H. Lawrence : a literary life by John Worthen ( Book )
16 editions published between 1989 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 934 libraries worldwide

The lost girl by D. H Lawrence ( Book )
15 editions published between 1981 and 2011 in English and held by 889 libraries worldwide

Robert Schumann : life and death of a musician by John Worthen ( Book )
8 editions published between 2006 and 2010 in English and held by 798 libraries worldwide
"This biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. John Worthen's attention to the original sources reveals Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate and immensely determined individual who, with little support from his background in provincial Saxony, painstakingly taught himself his craft as a musician, overcame problem after problem in his professional life and married the woman he loved after a tremendous battle with his father-in-law. Schumann was neither manic depressive nor schizophrenic, though he struggled with financial problems and illness. He worked prodigiously hard to develop his range of musical styles and to earn his living, only to be struck down, at the age of forty-four, by a vile and incurable disease."--Jacket.

The Prussian officer, and other stories by D. H Lawrence ( Book )
8 editions published between 1983 and 1995 in English and held by 728 libraries worldwide
A collection of twelve short stories written by Lawrence between the years of 1907 and 1914.

D.H. Lawrence's Sons and lovers a casebook ( Book )
14 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 703 libraries worldwide
The nine essays in this casebook demonstrate the full range of contemporary critical responses to D.H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers', from studies of narrative technique to psychoanalytic and gender-based analysis.

D.H. Lawrence and the idea of the novel by John Worthen ( Book )
14 editions published between 1979 and 1985 in English and held by 696 libraries worldwide