Women in Love

Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow 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. The novel ranges over British society prior to the First World War and ends high in the Tyrolean Alps. D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist poet playwright essayist literary critic and painter whose works represent a reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In his writings Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality spontaneity and instinct often apposing current social acceptance.