David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English writer and poet. Most famous for Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928), whose frank representation of sexual matters and class differences shocked many at the time and led to Penguin books being put on trial in the UK in 1960 under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation, which made him few friends in the establishment and he long suffered the reputation of a writer who squandered his talents on pornography, only recieving a re-evaluation much later that acknowledged his imagination and moral seriousness. Lawrence’s writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His further novels include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow & Women in Love.