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5 unusual facts about Women in Love


Catherine Carswell

During the autumn of 1916 she had nearly finished the work on her novel and she exchanged lengthy letters about it with Lawrence, who in return asked her for advice with his newest novel, Women in Love.

Many Marriages

Because Anderson explored the new sexual freedom in the novel, it was attacked in an American crusade against "dirty books", which also objected to D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love.

Ursula Dubosarsky

She was named after Ursula Brangwen, in the 1915 novel The Rainbow and the 1920 novel Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence.

Women in Love

Ursula's character draws on Lawrence's wife Frieda, and Gudrun on Katherine Mansfield, while Rupert Birken has elements of Lawrence himself, and Gerald Crich of Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry.

Gudrun begins an intense friendship with Loerke, a physically puny but emotionally commanding artist from Dresden.


The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love (1920), edited by David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-23565-0


see also

Elvaston Castle

In 1969, Elvaston was also used as a location for Ken Russell's film adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel Women in Love.

The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence

The First Women in Love (1916–17) edited by John Worthen and Lindeth Vasey,Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-37326-3