![]() ![]() At last, unable to bear her suffering, Paul and his sister Annie put an overdose of morphia in her milk. ![]() Paul is made an overseer at the factory and he now begins to be noticed as a painter and designer. Mrs Morel fears that Miriam will exclude her and tries to break up their relationship, while Paul, himself sickened at heart by Miriam's romantic love and fear of physical warmth, turns away and becomes involved with Clara Dawes, a married woman, separated from her husband Baxter, and a supporter of women's rights. Paul is friendly with the Leivers family of Willey Farm, and a tenderness grows between him and the daughter Miriam, a soulful, shy girl. She nurses him back to health, and subsequently their attachment deepens. Mrs Morel, numbed by despair, is roused only when Paul also falls ill. William goes to London to work as a clerk, and Paul also gets a job as a clerk with Mr Jordan, manufacturer of surgical appliances William develops pneumonia and dies. She struggles to keep herself and her family ‘respectable’ and is determined that her boys will not become miners. ![]() Morel, baffled and thwarted, is sometimes violent, while Mrs Morel turns all her love towards her four children, particularly her two eldest sons, William and Paul. She begins to shrink from his lack of fine feeling and drunkenness. Walter Morel has married a sensitive and high‐minded woman better educated than himself. Lawrence, published 1913, a closely autobiographical novel set in the Nottinghamshire coalmining village of Bestwood. ![]()
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