Worthen, whose career as a Lawrence biographer began in the 1980s, admits his subject's oeuvre has been overshadowed by the LadyChatterley controversy.
Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women In Love, was friends with the couple and contributed to The Adelphi, a monthly journal edited by Murry.
Children who pick up a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover or even Fifty Shades of Grey will have to turn a lot of pages concerned with suggestion and reflection before they get to the action.