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...intelligent and exhaustingly researched biography of Lawrence, Brenda Maddox succeeds in raising her subject above the level of talented pornographer. The 600 page-plus D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, is a volume of Mailer-ish manly heft. Nevertheless, the author manages to sustain the reader's interest throughout, allowing Lawrence to stand on his own--contradictions...
...Maddox also spends a great deal of time confronting the flip-side to this sexual openess, namely, Lawrence's misogyny. Wisely, she seeks neither to excuse nor to unequivocally condemn her subject. In the first chapter of D.H. Lawrence, Maddox focuses on one of the author's early short stories. "The Old Adam," which centers around a "seductive three-year-old called Mary," emerges as both an unpleasant display of misogyny and a stunningly precocious pre-Freudian fable...
...other controversial aspects of the man's character. What is truly disturbing about D.H. Lawrence is not its subject's violence or misogyny, but the insistent conflict of sexual identity which precludes the possibility of an easy or happy outcome. Lawrence's sexual ambiguities defy easy categorization. Maddox quotes several provocatively homoerotic passages, including the famous swimming scene from The White Peacock...
...However, Maddox declares that Lawrence was not, "like [E.M] Forster, a suppressed homosexual who did not have the courage of his desires...
...There was a technical violation of the election laws in the failure to have the description of the ballot questions printed in the ballot," Maddox said. "In this case you have a technical violation of law and an overriding public interest in affirming the vote, so ultimately I don't it's going to have any long-term consequences...