The Rainbow (1915) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Tom: Father of Anna.
• Ursula Brangwen: Future heroine of Women in Love
• Gudrun Brangwen: Future heroine of Women in Love and sister of Ursula
• Anna Brangwen: Add a description of this character.
• Violet Harby
• Tilly
• Anton Skrebensky
• Winifred Inger
• Will Brangwen
• Maggie
• Alfred Brangwen
• Adam
• Frank
• Williams
• Anthony
• Theresa
• Miss Schofield
• Dorothy
• Mr. Brunt
• Billy
• Mrs. Hardy
• Lydia Brangwen
• Ethel

Quotes edit see section history

• “"Shall you come an' have a look at my mare" he said to her, with his hearty kindliness that was now shaken with trepidation.”

• “She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven.”

• “<Chapter 1> But heaven and earth was teeming around them, and how should this cease? They felt the rush of the sap in spring, they knew the wave which cannot halt, but every year throws forward the seed to begetting, and, falling back, leaves the young-born on the earth. They knew the intercourse between heaven and earth, sunshine drawn into the breast and bowels, the rain sucked up in the daytime, nakedness that comes under the wind in autumn, showing the birds' nests no longer worth hiding.”

• “<Chapter 1> Their life and interrelations were such; feeling the pulse and body of the soil, that opened to their furrow for the grain, and became smooth and supple after their ploughing, and clung to their feet with a weight that pulled like desire, lying hard and unresponsive when the crops were to be shorn away. The young corn waved and was silken, and the lustre slid along the limbs of the men who saw it. They took the udder of the cows, the cows yielded milk and pulse against the hands of the men, the pulse of the blood of the teats of the cows beat into the pulse of the hands of the men. They mounted their horses, and held life between the grip of their knees, they harnessed their horses at the wagon, and, with hand on the bridle-rings, drew the heaving of the horses after their will.”

• “<Chapter 1> In autumn the partridges whirred up, birds in flocks blew like spray across the fallow, rooks appeared on the grey, watery heavens, and flew cawing into the winter. Then the men sat by the fire in the house where the women moved about with surety, and the limbs and the body of the men were impregnated with the day, cattle and earth and vegetation and the sky, the men sat by the fire and their brains were inert, as their blood flowed heavy with the accumulation from the living day.”

• “<Chapter 1> The women were different. On them too was the drowse of blood-intimacy, calves sucking and hens running together in droves, and young geese palpitating in the hand while the food was pushed down their throttle. But the women looked out from the heated, blind intercourse of farm-life, to the spoken world beyond. They were aware of the lips and the mind of the world speaking and giving utterance, they heard the sound in the distance, and they strained to listen.”

• “<Chapter 1> It was enough for the men, that the earth heaved and opened its furrow to them, that the wind blew to dry the wet wheat, and set the young ears of corn wheeling freshly round about; it was enough that they helped the cow in labour, or ferreted the rats from under the barn, or broke the back of a rabbit with a sharp knock of the hand. So much warmth and generating and pain and death did they know in their blood, earth and sky and beast and green plants, so much exchange and interchange they had with these, that they lived full and surcharged, their senses full fed, their faces always turned to the heat of the blood, staring into the sun, dazed with looking towards the source of generation, unable to turn round. But the woman wanted another form of life than this, something that was not blood-intimacy."”

• “<Chapter 1> As a child Frank had been drawn by the trickle of dark blood that ran across the pavement from the slaughter-house to the crew-yard, by the sight of the man carrying across to the meat-shed a huge side of beef, with the kidneys showing, embedded in their heavy laps of fat.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Marsh Farm: Home of the Brangwens for generations
• Cossethay: Where Tom Brangwen meets Lydia Lensky his future wife
• Lincoln Cathedral: Scene of Will and Anna's conflict
• Ilkston School: School where Ursula takes a teaching job and is unhappy
• Beldover: Will and Anna move to Beldover with their large family
• Nottingham
• London
• India
• England
• Poland
• Paris
• Warsaw
• Africa
• Ilkeston
• St. Philip

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Nostromo, and followed by Women in Love .

Preceded by An Evil Cradling, and followed by Down and Out in Paris and London.

Preceded by Of Human Bondage, and followed by The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Preceded by Nostromo, and followed by The Stone Diaries.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. D. H. Lawrence (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: 15-27933
• Dewey: 813

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( L ) › Lawrence, D.H.
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › 20th Century
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics

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