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===Early life===
[[File:DH Lawrence birthplace museum - geograph-1814503.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum]] in [[Eastwood, Nottinghamshire]]]]
TheLawrence was the fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner at [[Brinsley Colliery]], and Lydia Beardsall Lawrence (née Beardsall), a former [[pupil-teacher]] who had been forcedobliged to perform manual work in a [[lace|lace factory]] due to her family's financial difficulties,.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gillespie |first=Gavin |date=9 February 2024 |title=D.H. Lawrence - An illustrated biography. His life, death, and thereafter, containing unique photographs of the area where he was born. |url=https://www.dh-lawrence.co.uk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020604112958/http://www.lawrenceseastwood.co.uk/ |archive-date=4 June 2002 |access-date=24 May 2001 |website=DH Lawrence's Eastwood}}</ref> LawrenceHe spent his formative years in the [[coal mining]] town of [[Eastwood, Nottinghamshire|Eastwood]], [[Nottinghamshire]]. The house in which he was born, 8a Victoria Street, is now the [[D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum]]. His working-class background and the tensions between his parents provided the raw material for a number of his early works. Lawrence roamed out from an early age in the patches of open, hilly country and remaining fragments of [[Sherwood Forest]] in [[Felley]] woods to the north of [[Eastwood, Nottinghamshire|Eastwood]], beginning a lifelong appreciation of the natural world, and he often wrote about "the country of my heart"<ref>Letter to [[Rolf Gardiner]], 3 December 1926.</ref> as a setting for much of his fiction.
 
The young Lawrence attended Beauvale Board School<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/13/dh.lawrence D.H. Lawrence] (22 July 2008). ''TheGuardian.com''. Retrieved 15 September 2018.</ref> (now renamed Greasley Beauvale D. H. Lawrence Primary School in his honour) from 1891 until 1898, becoming the first local pupil to win a [[county council]] scholarship to [[Nottingham High School]] in nearby [[Nottingham]]. He left in 1901,<ref name="nottingham1">{{cite web | url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/lawrence/biography.aspx | title=Brief Biography of DH Lawrence - the University of Nottingham}}</ref> working for three months as a junior clerk at Haywood's [[Surgical instrument|surgical appliances]] factory, but a severe bout of [[pneumonia]] ended this career. During his convalescence he often visited Hagg's Farm, the home of the Chambers family, and began a friendship with Jessie Chambers, one of the daughters who would go on to inspire characters in his writing. An important aspect of this relationship with Chambers and other adolescent acquaintances was a shared love of books,<ref name="nottingham1908">{{cite web | url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/lawrence/extendedbiography/chapter1.aspx | title=Chapter 1: Background and youth: 1885-1908 - the University of Nottingham}}</ref> an interest that lasted throughout Lawrence's life.
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