DH Lawrence-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence

When you read Sons and Lovers today, it does not seem so wild.

I bought a collection of Lawrence's stories in a bookstore on Pirates' Alley in New Orleans.

Women do not fare well in his stories, and seem to go wild overseas--

In The Woman who Rode Away, a restless and sex-starved woman rides away to a remote Mexican village and gets gang raped.

Sons and Lovers is sad--his father a coal miner--one brother brought to bankruptcy by a flirtatious girl who wanted the latest fashions and squandered his money.

Very sad scene of his father washing the coal dust from his body in the evening after he came up from the mine.