A brief history of the writing of the novel 'The Lost Girl' D H Lawrence, The first two were quickly abandoned with the 4th becoming his famous novel English novelist, poet and essayist David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was 37 A Poet and Two Painters: A Memoir of D. H. Lawrence. The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare Catherine Brown 2 Women in Love D. H. Lawrence How should we read D H Lawrence? Jump to Novels - Lawrence and Frieda soon went back to Italy, staying in a cottage in Fiascherino on the Gulf of Spezia. Here he started writing the first draft of a work of fiction that was to be transformed into two of his best-known novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love, in which unconventional female characters take centre stage. Editor(s): Indrek M