A Portrait of a Woman: A Study in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers And Some of His Selected Short Poems

Abstract

A fictional work is, sometimes a resemblance of the personal life of its author. This is especially can be said on D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers which its autobiographical elements are easy to identify. The most well known instance of this is the novel’s heroine, Gertrude Morel whose character is based upon Lawrence’s mother, Lydia.This research, which follows the psycho-analysis approach in analyzing one of Sons and Lovers characters, sheds light on Gertrude Morel, the wife and the mother, in addition to some of Lawrence’s ―mother‖ poems that help in drawing a full portrait of Gertrude Morel or its double Lydia Lawrence.