Women in Love

Women in Love was a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It was a sequel to The Rainbow (1915), following 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 novel ranges over the whole of British society at the time of the First World War and eventually ends high up in the snows of the European Alps.

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Novel - D. H. Lawrence - 1920 - The Rainbow - 1915

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Like most of his works, Women in Love caused controversy over its sexual subject matter, and was only initially published for five years after it was first written. One early reviewer said of it "I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps - festering, putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven."

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It was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1969. It was the first theatrical movie to show male genitals when Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed) and Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates) wrestle in the nude.

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Academy Award - Film - 1969 - Oliver Reed - Alan Bates

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