''The Trespasser'' is a 1912 novel by

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 ...

. Set mostly on the Isle of Wight, it tells the story of Siegmund, a married man with children, and his adulterous affair with Helena. Originally it was titled the ''Saga of Siegmund'' and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawrence, Helen Corke, and her adulterous relationship with a married man that ended with his suicide. Lawrence worked from Corke's diary, with her permission, but also urged her to publish; which she did in 1933 as ''Neutral Ground''.

Reception

The biographer

Brenda Maddox Brenda, Lady Maddox ( Murphy; February 24, 1932 – June 16, 2019) was an American writer and biographer, who spent most of her adult life living and working in the UK, from 1959 until her death. She is best known for her biographies, includin ...

writes in ''D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage'' (1994) that ''The Trespasser'' was reviewed by the translator

Constance Garnett Constance Clara Garnett (; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the ...

, who found its last fifty pages comparable in quality to the work of "the best Russian school."

Standard edition

* ''The Trespasser'' (1912), edited by Elizabeth Mansfield, Cambridge University Press, 1981,

References

External links

* * Novels by D. H. Lawrence Novels set on islands 1912 British novels Gerald Duckworth and Company books {{1910s-novel-stub