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| Author | D. H. Lawrence |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Women in Love is a 1920 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.
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]
- ^ Kaplan, Sydney Janet (2010). Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- ^ "D.H. Lawrence". katherinemansfield.net. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
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