The White Peacock

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author = D. H. Lawrence
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Novel
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release_date = 1911
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"The White Peacock" is a novel by D. H. Lawrence published in 1911. Lawrence started the novel in 1906 and then rewrote it three times. The early versions had the working title of "Laetitia."

Lawrence's first novel is set in the Eastwood area of his youth and is narrated in the first person by a rather prissy character named Cyril Beardsall. It involves such Lawrentian themes as the damage associated with mismatched marriages, and the border country between town and country. A misanthropic gamekeeper makes an appearance, in some ways the prototype of Mellors in Lawrence's last novel, "Lady Chatterley's Lover". The book includes some notable description of nature and the impact of industrialisation on the countryside and the town. Its provincialism may be compared with the novels of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

Editions

* "The White Peacock" (1911), edited by Andrew Robertson, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-521-22267-2