D H Lawrence

Women in Love D H Lawrence

Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. 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. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an intense psychological and physical attraction between Gerald and Rupert.