Harry T. Moore papers regarding D.H. Lawrence

Collection

Identifier: MS-1996-011

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1973 - 1981

Scope and Contents

Contains materials regarding the life of early twentieth-century English author D.H. Lawrence, which belonged to literary critic and biographer Harry T. Moore. These include drafts of Alan Plater's screenplay for Priest of Love, based on Moore's biography of the same name, and an index of the letters of D.H. Lawrence compiled by Joe Martin. There is also a press packet for the Priest of Love film.

Creator

Moore, Harry T. (Harry Thornton), 1908-1981 (Person)

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Restrictions on use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Biographical Note: D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence was an English author best known for his modernist novels, but he also wrote short stories and poetry. Lawerence taught and published in London until 1912 when he moved to Europe with Frieda Weekley, the wife of a former professor, who he eventually married in 1914. With the exception of a few years at the start of World War II, the couple lived abroad for the rest of their lives, as Frieda's German heritage and Lawerence's controversial novels and known anti-militaristic views caused them to be viewed with suspicion in England. D.H. Lawrence's novels, including Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover were widely censored until well after his death in 1930. A landmark lawsuit against Penguin Books in England in 1960 failed to find the publisher guilty of breaking the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, changing the publication landscape for literary works containing explicit material.

Source:

Widmer, Kingsley. "D. H. Lawrence (11 September 1885-2 March 1930)." In British Novelists, 1890-1929: Modernists, edited by Thomas F. Staley, 115-149. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 36. Vol. 36. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1985.

Biographical Note: Harry T. Moore

Harry Thornton Moore was born in 1908 in Oakland, California. He was awarded Guggenheim fellowships for English Literature in 1958 and 1960. He published works on the lives and writings of D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, E.M. Foster, and John Steinbeck. He also wrote literary criticism for The New Republic. His works on Lawrence included a biography entitled Priest of Love (1954), which was the basis for a 1981 film; The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence (1962); and D.H. Lawrence and His World (1966). He died in Carbondale, Illinois in 1981.

Sources:

1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

"Fellows." John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation web site. Retrieved on 10 May 2021: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/harry-t-moore/

"Harry Thornton Moore." WWII Draft Registration Cards for Illinois, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 1246, The National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri; St. Louis, Missour.

Extent

1.25 Linear Feet (2 containers)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Provenance

Gift likely from Harry T. Moore to O'Neill Library in 1996. O'Neill Library subsequently transferred the material to Burns Library later the same year.