Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence D.H. Lawrence, son of a coal miner and a former schoolteacher, was born in the English Midlands in 1885. Lawrence attended Nottingham High School as a scholarship student and later Nottingham University College, where in...

Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist,...

In honor of Women's History Month, SD pays tribute to five professionals who've demonstrated an unwavering passion for the theater. Daryl Roth Producer Daryl Roth's extensive list of theatrical credits represents the best of Broadway and off-Broadway over the past two decades....

ODD GIRLS AND TWILIGHT LOVERS A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America By Lillian Faderman Columbia University Press. 374 pp. $29.95 ONE HAS to respect the tenacity of Lillian Faderman for making sense of the evolution of lesbian life...

Unable to obtain a video screener of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, and unwilling to return to my old soft-core and hard-core haunts around Times Square, I resolved a few weeks back not to report on the film at all, though I finally caught it...

John Flansburgh, of the band They Might Be Giants, was on the phone. “I have mixed emotions about ‘fabulous’ Williamsburg,” said Mr. Flansburgh, 47, who has lived in that neighborhood for over 20 years, watching as bars and boutiques began to choke Bedford Ave. “It’s...

In the following essay, Gordon comments on the tension between sexuality and language in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Ken Russell's film version of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love is a love's labor's lost: much attention is paid to the letter and spirit of the original, yet the film accentuates the novel's weaknesses and doesn't suggest many of its (admittedly linear) riches and strengths. This film is a serious attempt at "art," for no exchange of dialogue is free from the burden of love, death, sex, or interpersonal relationships…. Women in Love, as a film, ac...

[Women in Love emerges] not so much as an 'adaptation' of Lawrence's monumental novel, but as a kind of critical recreation. From the opening sequence, in which Gudrun and Ursula's half-sophisticated, half-innocent discussion of marriage is deftly punctuated by a passing couple with pram, the film develops as a dialogue between Lawrence's exploration of the freedom and submission of love and Russell's own distinctive vision…. [Birkin has] been 'transpo...