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Women in Love By: D. Women in Love is a novel by British author D. Lawrence, published in It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow , and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula.

Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald. 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. Her face was calm and considerate. But don't you think anyhow, you'd be—' she darkened slightly—'in a better position than you are in now. Gudrun, almost angrily, took up her rubber and began to rub out part of her drawing.

Ursula stitched absorbedly. I'm only tempted NOT to. In their hearts they were frightened. There was a long pause, whilst Ursula stitched and Gudrun went on with her sketch. The sisters were women, Ursula twenty-six, and Gudrun twenty-five. But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe. Gudrun was very beautiful, passive, soft-skinned, soft-limbed.

In , Lespinasse, an experienced woman of 42 twice as old as Isabelle was when she died met the fashionable Comte de Guibert, with whom she fell passionately in love — expressing her feelings in letters that, despite their evident sincerity, capture all the artistry of a writer steeped in French literary traditions.

Quelles larmes il fait verser! Julie de Lespinasse, 18th century engraving after a drawing by Carmontelle Chantilly.

In an especially intriguing passage, she ranked the comforting power of music below that of opium. Oh, quel art charmant! Lespi- nasse died less than a year later, at the age of Countess Sophie Fersen fig. Marie Antoinette, as a daughter of Empress Ma- ria Theresa, was a sister-in-law of the doomed Isabelle of Parma: a relationship that reminds us of how small and tightly knit were Euro- pean royalty and the upper levels of the nobility.

Near the end of , Sophie met the Russian prince Alexander Kurakin, whom Empress Catherine the Great had sent to Stockholm at the head of diplomatic delegation. Sophie expressed her feelings in letters that, unlike those of Isabelle of Parma and Julie de Lespinasse, suggest that these lovers found, at least briefly, some emotional and erotic fulfillment Ulti- mately Kurakin, in returning to St.

Petersburg, broke off the affair. Kurakina, vol. Smolyaninov, Yakovlev, Saratov , pp. RICE The theater in Stockholm had served as the setting for earlier scenes in the relationship — even when Kurakin did not attend the opera.

Knowing that the Russian prince was to return to St. Vous partez mardi, mon cher ami, il faut donc profiter de lundi, comme vous le dites, eh bien! RICE ment, mourir dans vos bras». About two weeks later Prince Kurakin left Sweden, to which he would never return.

Votre amour; ah! Ce ne sera uniquement que pour le conserver que je veux vivre et vous donner des marques du mien. Ma parure ne me donnera plus aucun soin, je ne me donnerai aucu- 15 Tuesday, 24 December, in the morning, ibidem, pp.

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