Women in love in The Rainbow. The Experience of love, Sex and Marriage of Lydia and Anna Brangwen

Abstract

After successive drafts bearing the marks of his reworking of the short stories, of his reading of Thomas Hardy and of his new life with Frieda, Lawrence pursued his speleology of the human psyche, using what he called “the exhaustive method” (L ll 143) through the various stages of his composition of the novel in “The Sisters,” then in “The Wedding Ring.” His relation with Frieda was at the core of his enterprise: “to depict Frieda’s God Almightiness in all its glory. That was the first crud...