The Trespasser (novel)

The Trespasser is a 1912 novel by D. H. Lawrence. Set mostly on the Isle of Wight, it tells the story of Siegmund, a married man with children, and his adulterous affair with Helena.

The Trespasser
AuthorD. H. Lawrence
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGerald Duckworth and Company Ltd
Publication date
1912[1]
Media typePrint
Pages292
Preceded byThe White Peacock 
Followed bySons and Lovers 
TextThe Trespasser at Wikisource

Originally it was titled the Saga of Siegmund and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawrence, Helen Corke, and her adulterous relationship with a married man that ended with his suicide. Lawrence worked from Corke's diary, with her permission, but also urged her to publish; which she did in 1933 as Neutral Ground.

Reception

The biographer Brenda Maddox writes in D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage (1994) that The Trespasser was reviewed by the translator Constance Garnett, who found its last fifty pages comparable in quality to the work of "the best Russian school."[2]

Standard edition
  • The Trespasser (1912), edited by Elizabeth Mansfield, Cambridge University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-521-22264-8

References
  1. Facsimile of the 1st edition (1912)
  2. Maddox, Brenda (1994). D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 58. ISBN 0-671-68712-3.


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