Book Discussion: D. H. Lawrence’s Women In Love (1920), Sisters and Husbands

D. H. Lawrence’s Women In Love features two sisters from rural England, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, who marry two very different men, the introspective intellectual Rupert Birkin and the ruthless industrialist Gerald Crich. In following these characters from English landed estates to Alpine mountain fastnesses, from antagonism to friendship, and from love to tragedy, Lawrence examines the changing mores of the modern world and, in particular, how the relations between men and women change in the twentieth century.