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.

Editions

• Women in Love (New York: Privately Printed by Thomas Seltzer, 1920).
• Women in Love (London: Martin Seeker, 1921).
• Women in Love, ed. Charles L. Ross (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1982).
• Women in Love, ed. David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, and John Worthen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). This edition is a volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D H Lawrence
• Women in Love, ed. David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, and John Worthen (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995).
• Women in Love, ed.David Bradshaw (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
• The First Women in Love (1916-17) edited by John Worthen and Lindeth Vasey,Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0521373263. This edition is a volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D H Lawrence and displays significant differences with the final published version
• The 'Prologue' to Women in Love is a discarded section of an early version of the novel and is set four years after Gerald and Birkin have returned from a skiing holiday in the Tyrol. It is published as an appendix to the Cambridge edition, pp489-506