Frieda Lawrence

Society

D H Lawrence as I knew him

• 01 November 2007

Taken from The New Statesman 13 August 1955 D H Lawrence, one of Britain's most controversial writers, was only 44 when he died from tuberculosis in 1930. His widow, Frieda, lived for another 26 years but her husband, a man she once described as "lonely, uncompromising and fearless", dominated her thoughts for the rest of her life. In this review of Harry T Moore's biography The Intelligent Heart written for the New Statesman a year before her own death, Frieda pays poignant tribute to Lawrence's memory. Selected by Robert Taylor