D.H. LAWRENCE WINS NEW RECOGNITION

The novelist D.H. Lawrence, who shocked his generation by writing about sex, has won a place in Poet’s Corner in London’s Westminster Abbey.

The D.H. Lawrence Society in Nottingham, the town in central England near which the writer was born 100 years ago, said that after three years of lobbying it had been given permission to put up a memorial plaque in the abbey.

Lawrence, who died in 1930, will be commemorated alongside such literary giants as William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas.