England, My England and Other Stories Book

Mine is a Penguin 1964 edition with only 10 stories.
...which tells me that:

"Many of the characters were drawn
from Lawrence's friends
and acquaintances in real life
and some stories caused great offence
when they were published."

Which doesn't surprise when we also read
that the content of these tales
has as "an underlying theme"...
"the emotional and physical conflict
between men and women,
and there is a frightening hardness
and disillusion in the sexual relationships
of the people involved..."

I'm halfway through the first story and enjoying Lawrence's style and subject matter just as much as ever.
More so when I can imagine that these are mostly factual situations and characters.
I can well imagine their chagrin though, these friends,or former friends of his.
Lawrence must have been an infuriating person with his overweening selfconfidence and opinionated ways.
Which made the man and the writer.
So no use complaining.
Except one CAN appreciate his poor friends or ex-friends!!!!