Lara Feigel and Tessa Hadley

Writer and academic Professor Lara Feigel discusses with novelist Tessa Hadley the legacy of D H Lawrence and the reasons why women still read him today. Together they will reread some of his greatest fiction.

In Look! We have Come Through! Living with D H Lawrence, Feigel describes how she returned to Lawrence during the lockdown of 2020 and used him as a guide to rural living and even to child-rearing. She looked at Lawrence’s life, anger, passion and vitality and, in the process, faced some of today’s dilemmas from secular religion to the climate crisis, from sex and sexuality to feminism’s ideas about motherhood.

Feigel is professor of modern literature and culture at King’s College London. She is author of works of non-fiction, including The Bitter Taste of Victory and Free Woman, and of a novel, The Group. Hadley is author of highly praised novels including The Past, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and Free Love.