Research Catalog

Title

The first 'Women in love' / D.H. Lawrence ; edited by John Worthen and Lindeth Vasey.

Author

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Worthen, John
• Vasey, Lindeth

Description

lv, 532 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This novel is the first version of Lawrence's novel widely regarded as his greatest, 'Women in Love'. His work was rejected by every publisher who saw it at the time, but this at long last is its very first publication.

Series Statement

• The Cambridge edition of the letters and works of D.H. Lawrence
• Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Works. 1979

Subject

• Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930)
• Coal mines and mining > Fiction
• Women > England > Fiction
• Male friendship > Fiction
• Sisters > Fiction
• Midlands (England) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Psychological fiction
• Love stories
• Fiction
• Fiction.
• Psychological fiction.

Note

• Text of the first version of Women in love, which differs from the final version published in 1920.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'The Sisters' (first version, March-June 1913) -- 'The Sisters II' (second version, August 1913-January 1914) -- 'The Wedding Ring' (third version, February-May 1914) -- The Rainbow and 'The Sisters III' (fourth version, two novels, November 1914-March 1915 and April-June 1916) -- The First 'Women in Love' written (fifth version, July-November 1916) -- The First 'Women in Love' prepared for publication (fifth version revised, November 1916) -- Responses from publishers -- Responses from other readers -- Text and status -- The First 'Women in Love'.

ISBN

0521373263 (hardback)

LCCN

^^^97018195^

OCLC

• 37211085
• SCSB-13222848

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library