'Frances Wilson’s book is as magnificently flawed as its subject – and a work of art in its own right'
Rachel Cooke reviewed Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence, by Frances Wilson, at The Guardian.
"In her new biography, Frances Wilson, who has been quietly in thrall to the novelist since she was a student, does not grill him lightly over charcoal; not for her the righteous disgust of Kate Millett, whose feminist attack on the author in Sexual Politics in 1970 more or less did for him, at least in our universities (a cancellation avant la lettre). Nevertheless, her book is a highly flammable thing."
See D. H. Lawrence, "The Rocking-Horse Winner" in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 3, and "The Prussian Officer" in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 60.
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