Data compiled from Yale Modernism Lab and “Chronology of D.H. Lawrence’s Life” in Sons and Lovers. Edited by David Trotter. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
| 1901 | Lawrence applies to be a medical office clerk September 1901 |
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| 1908 | Lawrence decides to become a writer May 13, 1908 Lawrence is appointed assistant master at a Croydon school October 9, 1908 Lawrence moves to Croydon October 15, 1908 Lawrence decides to write, instead of pursue another degree October 26, 1908 Lawrence begins painting landscapes November 4, 1908 Lawrence reads A. E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad” December 31, 1908 Lawrence is moved by Maurice Grieffenhagen’s painting “The Idyll” December 31, 1908 |
| 1909 | Lawrence reads Alexander Pushkin and Anatole France January 1909 Lawrence reads W.B. Yeats, Alfred Douglas, George Gissing January 20, 1909 Lawrence publishes the story “Goose Fair” in the “English Review” January 28, 1909 Lawrence attends a suffrage rally March 28, 1909 Lawrence reads Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment May 8, 1909 Lawrence submits poetry to Ford Madox Ford’s English Review September 11, 1909 Lawrence sends “The White Peacock” to Ford Madox Ford November 1, 1909 Lawrence lunches with Ford Madox Ford, Violet Hunt, and H.G. Wells November 20, 1909 Lawrence is befriended by Ezra Pound November 20, 1909 |
| 1910 | Lawrence circulates the manuscript of “The White Peacock” April 11, 1910 Lawrence attends a party at Ford Madox Ford’s July 24, 1910 Ford Madox Ford calls D.H. Lawrence’s second novel “a rotten work of genius” September 9, 1910 Lawrence publishes three poems in the “English Review” September 18, 1910 Lawrence visits his dying mother, breaks off a six-year betrothal November 15, 1910 Lawrence proposes to Louise Burrows, while his mother is on her deathbed December 3, 1910 |
| 1911 | Lawrence’s “The White Peacock” receives bad reviews January 30, 1911 Lawrence reads Stendhal’s “Rouge et Noir” April 4, 1911 – April 28, 1911 Lawrence reads Euripides and Sophocles April 26, 1911 Lawrence begins writing “Sons and Lovers” May 1, 1911 Lawrence’s work is solicited by publisher Martin Secker June 12, 1911 Lawrence participates in a Suffrage demonstration June 14, 1911 Lawrence signs a protest against the Spectator June 23, 1911 Lawrence’s stories are rejected by Edward Garnett as unsuitable to “American taste” September 21, 1911 Lawrence publishes the poems “Lightning” and “Violets” November 7, 1911 |
| 1912 | Lawrence, The Trespasser Lawrence breaks off his engagement with Louie Burrows February 4, 1912 Lawrence titles Sons and Lovers October 15, 1912 Frieda Weekley considers leaving her husband for D.H. Lawrence October 30, 1912 Lawrence begins writing the life of Robert Burns December 17, 1912 Lawrence sees Ibsen’s Ghosts December 29, 1912 |
| 1913 | Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Lawrence begins The Rainbow as a novel on relations between men and women May 2, 1913 Lawrence meets Katherine Mansfield July 9, 1913 Lawrence sends “futuristic” poems to Harold Munro August 1, 1913 Lawrence nominated by Ezra Pound for the Polignac Prize in poetry December 26, 1913 |
| 1914 | Lawrence, The Prussian Officers 1914 Lawrence publishes 8 poems in Poetry January 1914 Lawrence begins a new version of The Sisters as The Wedding Ring February 1914 Lawrence publishes five poems in The Egoist April 1914 Lawrence’s “The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd” published April 1, 1914 Lawrence writes famous letter rejecting “the old stable ego of the character” June 5, 1914 Lawrence stays at Max Weber’s home in Heidelberg June 18, 1914 Lawrence meets Rupert Brooke June 27, 1914 Lawrence marries Frieda Weekley July 13, 1914 Lawrence projects a book on Hardy July 15, 1914 Lawrence meets Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington July 30, 1914 Lawrence, “Honor and Arms” August 1914 Lawrence learns of the war August 4, 1914 Lawrence begins revising The Wedding Ring as The Rainbow November 1914 Lawrence, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories November 26, 1914 |
| 1915 | Lawrence meets E.M. Forster January 21, 1915 Lawrence finishes The Rainbow March 2, 1915 Lawrence’s quarrell with Bertrand Russell begins July 12, 1915 Lawrence, The Rainbow September 30, 1915 Lawrence, “England, My England” October 1915 Virginia Woolf reads D.H. Lawrence’s Love Poems December 22, 1915 Lawrence invites Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry to live with him December 22, 1915 |
| 1916 | Lawrence begins writing Women in Love April 15, 1916 Lawrence finishes “The Sisters III” (Women in Love) June 27, 1916 Lawrence finishes Women in Love November 6, 1916 |
| 1917 | Women in Love rejected by three publishers January 1917 Lawrence, Samson and Delilah” March 1917 Lawrence, Reality of Peace” May 1917 – August 1917 Lawrence’s house is raided by the police October 12, 1917 |
| 1918 | Lawrence finishes “New Poems” April 18, 1918 |
| 1919 | Lawrence reviews Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Scarlet Letter” April 3, 1919 Lawrence begins Aaron’s Rod June 8, 1919 |
| 1920 | Lawrence, Women in Love Lawrence’s play Touch and Go is issued February 5, 1920 Lawrence finishes The Lost Girl May 6, 1920 Virginia Woolf reviews D.H. Lawrence’s The Lost Girl in the TLS July 1, 1920 Lawrence publishes two articles in the “Dial” August 1, 1920 |
| 1921 | Lawrence slightly alters Women in Love to publish widely January 14, 1921 Lawrence is required to publish under a pseudonym after The Rainbow scandal January 21, 1921 Lawrence’s Women in Love is reviewed in The Dial June 3, 1921 Lawrence reads about Einstein’s theory of relativity June 16, 1921 Lawrence, “The Revolutionary” August 16, 1921 Lawrence, “Sea and Sardinia” October 31, 1921 Lawrence writes The Captain’s Doll, The Fox November 15, 1921 |
| 1922 | Lawrence decides to visit Ceylon January 24, 1922 Lawrence leaves Ceylon April 30, 1922 Lawrence requests James Joyce’s Ulysses September 22, 1922 Lawrence cannot finish James Joyce’s Ulysses November 14, 1922 Lawrence is wearied by James Joyce’s Ulysses November 28, 1922 |
| 1923 | Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature 1923 Lawrence, Kangaroo 1923 Lawrence’s Women in Love is brought to trial to be banned February 9, 1923 Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious August 13, 1923 Lawrence, “The Proper Study” September 17, 1923 |
| 1924 | Lawrence travels to New Mexico, then Mexico 1924 Lawrence, “Indians and Entertainment” April 20, 1924 Lawrence reads E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India July 24, 1924 Lawrence, “Jimmy and the Desperate Woman” July 30, 1924 Lawrence, “Hopi Snake Dance” August 30, 1924 John Arthur Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence’s father, dies September 10, 1924 |
| 1925 | Lawrence moves to Italy Lawrence, “The Woman Who Rode Away” May 23, 1925 |
| 1926 | Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent 1926 Lawrence publishes criticism and poetry in the Adelphi January 29, 1926 Lawrence, “Two Blue Birds” May 13, 1926 Lawrence reviews H.G. Wells’s The World of William Clissold August 20, 1926 Lawrence, “In Love?” November 1, 1926 |
| 1927 | Lawrence, Mornings in Mexico Lawrence paints Finding of Moses June 11, 1927 Lawrence reads Marcel Proust and Andre Gide July 15, 1927 |
| 1928 | Lawrence, The Women Who Rode Away and Other Stories 1928 Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover published privately in Florence 1928 Lawrence, “The Blue Moccasins” July 26, 1928 Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is returned by booksellers, searched for by police August 9, 1928 |
| 1929 | Lawrence, “Women Don’t Change” January 5, 1929 Lawrence publishes poems in the Dial April 18, 1929 Lawrence publishes the article “Pornography and Obscenity” April 19, 1929 Lawrence reads T.S. Eliot’s “Dante” December 9, 1929 |
| 1930 | Lawrence enters a sanatorium, after losing weight February 7, 1930 Lawrence dies of tuberculosis at Vence, Alpes Maritimes, France March 2, 1930 |