England, My England is a collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence. Several individual items were originally written between 1913 and 1921, many of them against the background of World War I and placed in magazines or periodicals. Ten were later selected and extensively revised by Lawrence for the England, My England, which was published on October 24, 1922 by Thomas Seltzer in the United States. The first United Kingdom edition was published by Martin Secker in 1924. These ten tales explore the complexities of human relationships, desire, and betrayal. The characters navigate the issues of marital infidelity, unexpected returns, forced unions, and abandoned families. Lawrence examines how war reshapes lives at home, revealing the tensions between duty and longing, loyalty and self-interest, in an England forever changed by conflict. Lawrence used the backdrop of the home front to explore how the pressures of war and industrialization fractured personal relationships and traditional English identity.