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Women in Love
It follows two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen, as they navigate complex romantic relationships with two men: industrialist Gerald Crich and intellectual Rupert Birkin.
"Women in Love" by D. H. Lawrence is a novel. It follows two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen, as they navigate complex romantic relationships with two men: industrialist Gerald Crich and intellectual Rupert Birkin.
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Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds.
“Ursula,” said Gudrun, “don’t you really want to get married?” Ursula laid her embroidery in her lap and looked up. Her face was calm and considerate.
“I don’t know,” she replied. “It depends how you mean.”
Gudrun was slightly taken aback. She watched her sister for some moments.
“Well,” she said, ironically, “it usually means one thing! But don’t you think anyhow, you’d be—” she darkened slightly—“in a better position than you are in now.”
“I might,” she said. “But I’m not sure.”
Again Gudrun paused, slightly irritated. She wanted to be quite definite.
“You don’t think one needs the experience of having been married?” she asked.
“Do you think it need be an experience?” replied Ursula.
“Bound to be, in some way or other,” said Gudrun, coolly. “Possibly undesirable, but bound to be an experience of some sort.”
“Not really,” said Ursula. “More likely to be the end of experience.”
Gudrun sat very still, to attend to this.
“Of course,” she said, “there’s that to consider.” This brought the conversation to a close. Gudrun, almost angrily, took up her rubber and began to rub out part of her drawing. Ursula stitched absorbedly.
Contents
- 01Chapter I. Sisters
- 02Chapter II. Shortlands
- 03Chapter III. Class-Room
- 04Chapter IV. Diver
- 05Chapter V. In the Train
- 06Chapter VI. Crème De Menthe
- 07Chapter VII. Fetish
- 08Chapter VIII. Breadalby
- 09Chapter IX. Coal-Dust
- 10Chapter X. Sketch-Book
- 11Chapter XI. An Island
- 12Chapter XII. Carpeting
- 13Chapter XIII. Mino
- 14Chapter XIV. Water-Party
- 15Chapter XV. Sunday Evening
- 16Chapter XVI. Man to Man
- 17Chapter XVII. The Industrial Magnate
- 18Chapter XVIII. Rabbit
- 19Chapter XIX. Moony
- 20Chapter XX. Gladiatorial
- 21Chapter XXI. Threshold
- 22Chapter XXII. Woman to Woman
- 23Chapter XXIII. Excurse
- 24Chapter XXIV. Death and Love
- 25Chapter XXV. Marriage or Not
- 26Chapter XXVI. A Chair
- 27Chapter XXVII. Flitting
- 28Chapter XXVIII. Gudrun in the Pompadour
- 29Chapter XXIX. Continental
- 30Chapter XXX. Snowed Up
- 31Chapter XXXI. Exeunt
About this edition
- Author
- D. H. Lawrence
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 551 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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