David Herbert Lawrence
THE WHITE PEACOCK
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( Feb. 3, 2020)
The White Peacock is the first novel by D. H. Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) , published in 1911, though with 1910 on the title page. Lawrence started the novel in 1906 and then rewrote it three times.
The novel is set in Nethermere (fictional name for real-life Eastwood) and is narrated by Cyril Beardsall, whose sister Laetitia (Lettie) is involved in a love triangle with two young men, George and Leslie Temple. She eventually marries Leslie, even though she feels sexually drawn to George. Spurned by Lettie, George marries the conventional Meg. Both his and Lettie's marriages end in unhappiness, as George slides into alcoholism at the novel's close.