Why did D.H. Lawrence leave England after World War I?

D.H. Lawrence left England in 1919 following the conclusion of World War I and never returned to live there. His departure was driven by the intense hostility and persecution he and his wife, Frieda, endured during the war years.12

As a pacifist with a German wife, Lawrence faced significant suspicion from his neighbors, particularly while living in Cornwall, where they were accused of signaling to German submarines and subsequently expelled from the county in 1917. Furthermore, Lawrence was marked as a subversive writer after his novel The Rainbow was suppressed in 1915 on charges of obscenity, a legal action fueled by the war hysteria of the time. These experiences of state and social persecution for his antiwar sentiments and literary work ultimately destroyed his desire to participate actively in English society.231