D. H. Lawrence — A Profile of the English Writer
“Lawrence was an extremely complicated and contradictory young man when he wrote his first novel…”
Prologue — Jessie Chambers
Haggs Farm was Lawrence’s Second Home
Jessie Chambers was one of the most influential, and important people in D.H. Lawrence’s life. She was certainly his first real love, and maybe his only true love, notwithstanding his later, scandalous, and enduring love for Frieda.
Jessie and David’s relationship was not without its difficulties, but both, in the early days, seemed to understand each other, and they always did (rightly or wrongly depending on their mood) what they considered to be right for the other.
Jessie’s large family, and Haggs Farm were, for David Herbert Lawrence, his second home, and in many ways maybe his first, in the sense that it was a happy place and a happy family, whereas his own was far from happy with a constantly bickering mother and father with David invariably having to take his mother’s side.
