John Worthen (born June 1943) taught at universities in

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and Wales before becoming Professor of

D.H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...

Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he remains Emeritus Professor. His inaugural lecture as Professor of

Studies was published under the title ''Cold Hearts and Coronets''.John Worthen, ''Cold Hearts and Coronets: Lawrence, the Weekleys and the Von Richthofens or The Right and Romantic versus the Wrong and Repulsive''. University of Nottingham, D.H. Lawrence Centre, 1995 His career as Lawrence’s biographer began in the 1980s and culminated in the celebrated ''D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885–1912'', the first part of the definitive three-volume Cambridge biography (Cambridge University Press, 1991–98). Material from this project later formed the foundation of Worthen's single volume study, ''D.H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider'' (2005). Though based in Lawrence’s hometown of Nottingham, he has researched and travelled around the world to complete this portrait of the writer. In 2001 he published a group biography of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle entitled ''The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons, and the Wordsworths in 1802''; in 2007 he published a life of the musician

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and since then has completed a short biography of T.S. Eliot (2009), an ''Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge'' for Cambridge University Press (2011), a volume of unpublished lectures on D.H. Lawrence entitled ''Experiments'' (2012), a biography of William Wordsworth (2014), and a biography of

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(2019). In addition to this biographical work, Professor Worthen has edited or co-edited seven individual volumes in ''The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D.H. Lawrence'' series and is a member of the editorial board of the Edition.

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