A close bond developed between the mother and son, so much so, that as a result of her possessiveness, he had to terminate his relationship with a young friend, Jessie. The mother recovered from this shock only because David also fell seriously ill, and she nursed him back to health. His older brother, William, to whom his mother was very attached, fell sick and died. When he was sixteen, David left school to work for a surgical-appliance manufacturer in Nottingham. Physical attraction had been the only reason that they had married each other. The father was scarcely able to write his name, and read the newspaper with great difficulty, while the mother was educated, wrote poetry and had worked as a teacher.
The two were incompatible for various reasons, but particularly because of their cultural disparity. David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885, to a coal-miner named John Lawrence and his middle class wife Lydia.
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