Women in Love
1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Women in Love (1920) is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915) and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula Brangwen and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an intense psychological and physical attraction between Gerald and Rupert.
Author | D. H. Lawrence |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Thomas Seltzer |
Publication date | 1920 |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
Pages | 536 (first edition hardcover) |
Preceded by | The Rainbow |
Followed by | The Lost Girl |
The novel ranges over the whole of British society before the time of the First World War and eventually concludes in the snows of the Tyrolean Alps. Ursula's character draws on Lawrence's wife Frieda and Gudrun's on Katherine Mansfield, while Rupert Birkin's has elements of Lawrence himself, and Gerald Crich is partly based on Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry.[1][2]