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Hello, David Herbert Lawrence packed a lot of literature into his 44 years, and while he might be best known for novels like Lady Chatterley's lover, sons and lovers, the rainbow and women in love, he wrote a lot more than that, essays, poetry, and short stories included.

At the end of 2023, we looked at one of his most famous stories, Oder of Chrysanthemum. of which shows a different side of Lawrence, not the authoritative writer in serene command of his craft,

but a hungrier side, an edgier side, a writer tapping into something surprising, but in its own way inevitable.

We'll hear that story and discuss it with our old friend Mike Palindrome

today on the history of literature.

Hello everyone, I'm Jack Wilson.

Glad to be here with you today.

Welcome to the podcast.

So, D.H. Lawrence born in 1885 not to the manner born in any sense he grew up among

colliers coal miners his father was barely literate. He took his literary bent from his mother who had at

one time been a school teacher, but he wrote about what he knew. And this is the second of our

stories to focus on the working class of these small towns

dotting the English countryside. A train is at the heart of it, a train and the people who were working on that train.

Women in particular, who were called into duty to assist on the trains while the men in the town

had mostly been called off to war.

One man has remained behind.

His name is John Thomas, good Lord.

Sometimes these Freudian writers are a little too on the nose,

but anyway, that's his name Lucky John Thomas.

He's got his pick of the ladies who are excited to be out of their homes working, enjoying some freedom.

This story was published in 1918.

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