The First 'Women in Love'

The first critical edition of The First 'Women in Love'.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), John Worthen (Edited by), Lindeth Vasey (Edited by)

9780521373265, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 October 1998

590 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.3 x 14.6 x 3.6 cm, 0.795 kg

The First 'Women in Love' is one of Lawrence's greatest works, and is the only full length work of fiction which he completed between The Rainbow and the extensively revised Women in Love. It is a piece of fiction generated in the England, and the Europe, of the First World War. Publishers were alarmed by the fate of his previous novel The Rainbow and The First 'Women in Love' was rejected by every publisher who saw it. As a result it is a novel whose very existence as an independent text has been ignored, and which has not been published until now. The First 'Women in Love' shares much of its material with Women in Love, but its central relationships are dissimilar, and the ending radically different.

General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Cue-titles
Introduction
The First Women In Love
Appendix
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
A note on pounds, shillings and pence.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]