A Letter from D.H. Lawrence to Ernest Weekley (1912) [idea clutch]

"All women in their natures are like giantesses"

D.H. Lawrence was a student at University College, Nottingham when he began an affair with his professor’s, Ernest Weekley, wife, Frida. Shortly after the affair begins, D.H. Lawrence writes the following letter to Ernest Weekley (a man nearly twenty years his senior), about the nature of the affair.

"Mrs. Weekly is afraid of being stunted and not allowed to grow, and so she must live her own life. All women in their natures are like giantesses. They will break through everything and go on with their own lives,” he writes. “Mrs. Weekley must live large and abundantly. It is her nature.”

Sounds like one cool lady to me. (And, this was written in a world where women would have to wait another seven years for the right to vote).

From The Selected Letters of D.H. Lawrence.