Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence`s friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over "Lady Chatterley`s Lover" still raging, the abuse heaped on him prompted her into writing this warm and intimate account of his life. "The Savage Pilgrimage" traces Lawrence`s troubled existence back to his working-class origins and gives a particularly moving and intimate description of his life during the First World War after "The Rainbow" had been banned, no-one would publish his work, and he became desperately poor. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the life of one of Britain`s greatest and most controversial writers and includes details of Lawrence`s everyday behaviour, and insights into his character, which could only have been provided by someone who was as close to him as its author.