Women in Love (1920) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Gudrun Brangwen: Add a description of this character.
• Rupert Birkin
• Gerald Crich
• Ursula Brangwen
• Hermione Roddice
• Winifred
• Loerke
• Billy
• Bismarck
• Dora
• Pussum
• Maxim
• Joshua
• Alexander
• Mrs. Brangwen
• Mino
• Marshall
• Laura
• Leitner
• Diana
• Winnie
• Willey Water
• Lupton
• Breadalby
• Willey Green

Quotes edit see section history

• “It's no good trying to tow the line, when your one impulse is to smash up the line.”

  Rupert Birkin

• “If only one might create the future after one's own heart -- for a little pure truth, a little unflinching application of simple truth to life, the heart cried out ceaselessly.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• England
• Beldover
• Paris
• Shortlands
• Italy
• Dresden
• Munich
• Breadalby

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. D. H. Lawrence (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Publishing Triangle's 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PR6023.A93
• Dewey: 823.912

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( L ) › Lawrence, D.H.
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Book and Film Review: While there are various series’ on the list and books that can be considered part of a series, this is the only out and out sequel on the list. It tells the further story of Ursula and Gudrun, the two sisters who were the subjects of Lawrence’s The Rainbow. It wasn’t designed to be a sequel — it was supposed to be one long work; the publisher, however, decided to publish the two books separately and after the controversy stirred up by the first book, decided not to publish Women in Love at all, leading to a change in publishers and a gap of five years before it appeared. The Rainbow, on its own, is a great novel (it finished at #48 on the Modern Library list) and was a strong contender for my list, but Women in Love is an even better one. My Penguin paperback describes the two as “his greatest novels” but both the Modern Library and I disagree. This is not a slight to Women in Love, though, when you realize that the ML placed Sons and Lovers in the top 10 and it makes my list, though not nearly so high. Still, there are few who can match him and his descriptive use of the English language.
• Wikipedia Article: Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. 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 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 ends high up in the snows of the Tyrolean Alps.

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