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Women in Love

DH Lawrence

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Sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen question what marriage and a different kind of life might offer them. Their relationships with Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich develop through attraction, argument, and resistance, while the industrial society around them shapes competing ideas of intimacy and power.

31 sections181,346 wordsAbout 13 h 44 min
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About Women in Love

Lawrence makes conversation physically charged, allowing philosophical positions to emerge through desire, irritation, and conflict. The two relationships illuminate each other without becoming simple alternatives. Landscapes, work, and intense moments of looking give the novel a restless sensory texture, while its characters repeatedly seek forms of connection that their own demands threaten to undo.

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Explore two intertwined relationships whose intense arguments and attractions challenge the possibilities of intimacy within an industrial social world.

This reading edition contains 181,346 words in 31 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: DH Lawrence. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

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Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds.

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Contents

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  1. CHAPTER I. SISTERS29 min
  2. CHAPTER II. SHORTLANDS20 min
  3. CHAPTER III. CLASS-ROOM18 min
  4. CHAPTER IV. DIVER11 min
  5. CHAPTER V. IN THE TRAIN15 min
  6. CHAPTER VI. CRÈME DE MENTHE26 min
  7. CHAPTER VII. FETISH9 min
  8. CHAPTER VIII. BREADALBY49 min
  9. CHAPTER IX. COAL-DUST17 min
  10. CHAPTER X. SKETCH-BOOK7 min
  11. CHAPTER XI. AN ISLAND19 min
  12. CHAPTER XII. CARPETING17 min
  13. CHAPTER XIII. MINO19 min
  14. CHAPTER XIV. WATER-PARTY64 min
  15. CHAPTER XV. SUNDAY EVENING15 min
  16. CHAPTER XVI. MAN TO MAN21 min
  17. CHAPTER XVII. THE INDUSTRIAL MAGNATE46 min
  18. CHAPTER XVIII. RABBIT17 min
  19. CHAPTER XIX. MOONY40 min
  20. CHAPTER XX. GLADIATORIAL18 min
  21. CHAPTER XXI. THRESHOLD26 min
  22. CHAPTER XXII. WOMAN TO WOMAN18 min
  23. CHAPTER XXIII. EXCURSE35 min
  24. CHAPTER XXIV. DEATH AND LOVE54 min
  25. CHAPTER XXV. MARRIAGE OR NOT6 min
  26. CHAPTER XXVI. A CHAIR17 min
  27. CHAPTER XXVII. FLITTING26 min
  28. CHAPTER XXVIII. GUDRUN IN THE POMPADOUR11 min
  29. CHAPTER XXIX. CONTINENTAL96 min
  30. CHAPTER XXX. SNOWED UP62 min
  31. CHAPTER XXXI. EXEUNT12 min

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