Lawrence in Biofiction

Abstract

This chapter explores the ways in which Lawrence and the ‘Lawrentian type’ is represented in biofiction from 1916 to 2018. The first sections assess pen portraits of Lawrence in the fiction of friends and contemporaries including Aldous Huxley and H. D. The chapter then considers biofictional representations of Lawrence which appeared after his death in 1930 by H. G. Wells and others, tracing intersections between these novels and biographies of Lawrence. In its concluding section, the chapter assesses Lawrence’s afterlife in recent biofiction by Helen Dunmore and others. Throughout, the chapter considers how early and more recent biofictional representations of Lawrence both reflect and reflect upon his own aesthetic and legacy.