num_pages: 464
description: 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. Ursula's character draws on Lawrence's wife Frieda, and Gudrun on Katherine Mansfield, while Rupert Birkin has elements of Lawrence himself, and Gerald Crich of Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry.
language: English
title: Women in Love
titlecomplete: Women in Love
characters: Gerald Crich, Ursula Brangwen, Gudrun Brangwen
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Banned Books, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 31759
places: England
series: Brangwen Family
publisher: Viking Adult