num_pages: 608
description: Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire. Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist, Women in Love is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.
language: English
title: Women in Love
titlecomplete: Women in Love
characters: Ursula Brangwen, Gudrun Brangwen, Gerald Crich
genres: 20th Century, Literature, British Literature, Banned Books, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, English Literature, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 31760
places: England
series: Brangwen Family
publisher: Penguin Classics