Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920.

It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the ontinuin! loves and lives of the Bran!wen sisters, "udrun and #rsula. "udrun Bran!wen, an artist, pursues a destru tive relationship with "erald $ri h, an industrialist. %awren e ontrasts this pair with the love that develops between #rsula and &upert Bir'in, an alienated intelle tual who arti ulates (any opinions asso iated with the author. )he e(otional relationships thus established are !iven further depth and tension by an intense psy holo!i al and physi al attra tion between "erald and &upert. )he novel ran!es over the whole of British so iety before the ti(e of the First World War and eventually ends hi!h up in the snows of the Tyrolean Alps. #rsula*s hara ter draws on %awren e*s wife +rieda, and "udrun on Katherine Mansfield, while &upert Bir'en has ele(ents of %awren e hi(self, and "erald $ri h of ,ansfield*s husband, John Middleton Murry.[2 -s with (ost of %awren e*s wor's, Women in Love aused ontroversy over its se.ual sub/e t (atter. 0ne early reviewer said of it, 1I do not lai( to be a literary riti , but I 'now dirt when I s(ell it, and here is dirt in heaps2festerin!, putrid heaps whi h s(ell to hi!h 3eaven.1[! It also later stirred riti is( for its portrayal of love, denoun ed as hauvinisti and entred upon the phallus by "i#one de $eau%oir in The Second Sex.[& 'lot su##ary #rsula and "udrun Bran!wen are two sisters livin! in the ,idlands of 4n!land in the 1910s. #rsula is a tea her, "udrun an artist. )hey (eet two (en who live nearby, s hool inspe tor &upert Bir'in and oal5(ine heir "erald $ri h. )he four be o(e friends. #rsula and Bir'in be o(e involved, and "udrun eventually be!ins a love affair with "erald. -ll four are deeply on erned with questions of so iety, politi s, and the relationship between (en and wo(en. -t a party at "erald*s estate, "erald*s sister 6iana drowns. "udrun be o(es the tea her and (entor of his youn!est sister. 7oon "erald*s oal5(ine5ownin! father dies as well, after a lon! illness. -fter the funeral, "erald !oes to "udrun*s house and spends the ni!ht with her, while her parents are asleep in another roo(.Bir'in as's #rsula to (arry hi(, and she a!rees. "erald and "udrun*s relationship, however, be o(es stor(y. )he four va ation in the -lps. "udrun be!ins an intense friendship with %oer'e, a physi ally puny but e(otionally o((andin! artist fro( Dresden. "erald, enra!ed by %oer'e and (ost of all by "udrun*s verbal abuse and re/e tion of his (anhood, and driven by the internal violen e of his own self, tries to stran!le "udrun. Before he has 'illed her, however, he realises that this is not what he wants, and he leaves "udrun and %oer'e and li(bs the (ountain, eventually slippin! into a snowy valley where he falls asleep and free8es to death.)he i(pa t on Bir'in of "erald*s death is profound9 the novel ends a few wee's after "erald*s death, with Bir'in tryin! to e.plain to #rsula that he needs "erald as he needs her2her for the perfe t relationship with a wo(an, and "erald for the perfe t relationship with a (an. :o(en in %ove is a novel by British author 6. 3. %awren e published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel )he &ainbow (1915), and follows the ontinuin! loves and lives of the Bran!wen sisters, "udrun and #rsula. "udrun Bran!wen, an artist, pursues a destru tive relationship with "erald $ri h, an industrialist. %awren e ontrasts this pair with the love that develops between #rsula and &upert Bir'in, an alienated intelle tual who arti ulates (any opinions asso iated with the author. )he e(otional relationships thus established are !iven further depth and tension by an unad(itted ho(oeroti attra tion between "erald and &upert. )he novel ran!es over the whole of British so iety at the ti(e of the +irst :orld :ar and eventually ends hi!h up in the snows of the 7wiss -lps.-s with (ost of %awren e*s wor's, :o(en in %ove aused ontroversy over its se.ual sub/e t (atter. 0ne early reviewer said of it, 1I do not lai( to be a literary riti , but I 'now dirt when I s(ell it, and here is dirt in heaps 2 festerin!, putrid heaps whi h s(ell to hi!h 3eaven.1 Women In Love, the boo' %awren e onsidered his best, was written durin! :orld :ar I, and while that onfli t is never (entioned in the novel, a sense of ba '!round dan!er, of lur'in! atastrophe, ontinually infor(s its dra(a of two ouples dyna(i ally en!a!ed in a stru!!le with the(selves, with ea h other, and with life*s intra table li(itations. %awren e was a powerful, propheti writer, but in addition he brou!ht su h deli a y to his treat(ent of the hu(an and natural worlds that 4. ,. +orster*s lai( that he was the !reatest i(a!inative novelist of our !eneration does hi( too little /usti e rather than too (u h.