Women in Love

Name: Women in Love
Author: D.H. Lawrence

The author of Lady Chatterly’s Lover explores the lives and loves of two sisters in pre-World War I England.

The Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula, live in The Midlands of England in the 1910s. After befriending two local men, Rupert and Gerald, the lives of the foursome become entangled as they question society, politics, and the relationships between men and women in the pre-War era.

A sequel to The Rainbow, Women in Love—"the beginning of a new world," as Lawrence called it—suffered some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication. Until now, no text of Women in Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence’s revisions, allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist’s work as he himself created it.

D.H. Lawrence

Born in England on September 11, 1885, D. H. Lawrence is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Lawrence published many novels and poetry volumes during his lifetime, including Sons and Lovers and Women in Love, but is best known for his infamous novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The graphic and highly sexual novel was published in Italy in 1928, but was banned in the United States until 1959, and banned in England until 1960. Garnering fame for his novels and short stories early into his career—especially his collections The Fox, The Captain’s Doll, and The Ladybird and The Prussian Officer and Other Stories—Lawrence later received acclaim for his personal letters and poetry, in which he detailed a range of emotions, from exhilaration to depression to prophetic brooding. He died in France in 1930.