Sons and Lovers

David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, essayist, painter, literary critic and playwright. He is remembered for his books women in love, the Rainbow and lady chatterley’s lover. Sons and loveless is considered to be br>dh. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insights into the complex relationships between son and mother and between son and other women. Novel is largely autobiographical and reflects Lawrence’s life at nottinghamshire coalfields before he left home. This is perhaps the first English novel with a truly working-class background. It is a provocative portrait of an artist torn between love for his possessive mother and desire for two young beautiful women. Gertrude is Paul’s puritanical mother who concentrates all her love and attention on her son Paul. She nurtures his talents as a painter.