| Women in Love Contributor(s): Saguez, Edinson (Editor), Lawrence, D. H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1530911362 ISBN-13: 9781530911363 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.01 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 920 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.34 lbs) 458 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Women in Love is Published in 1920, Women in Love author DH Lawrence writes about sisters Gudrun and Ursula, the Brangwen sisters. The sisters meet and fall in love with two men who, like them, are emotionally intense and often confused about love and life. The novel has a middle school break up/get back together cadence to it that draws the reader in as it examines relationships and societal expectations between men and women and even men and men. Eventually the drama of these highly reactive couples results in tragedy. Ultimately, the two relationships go in very different directions. The initial strife between Birkin and Ursula over his lingering attachment to the controlling Hermione Roddice is resolved by his eventual willingness to break off their relationship, and Birkin and Ursula give up their jobs as teachers to take up a more bohemian lifestyle. Gerald and Gudrun begin on the firm ground of mutual sexual attraction, and their bond intensifies when Gerald's ailing father invites Gudrun to become the art tutor for the family's young daughter Winifred. But she finally comes to find Gerald emotionally inaccessible and during a winter holiday in the Tyrol abandons his intimacy in favor of a German sculptor, precipitating Gerald's suicide 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. |