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Holderness, Graham. Women in Love. Open Guide to Literature series. Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 1986.

Howe, Marguerite Beede. The Art of the Self in D. H. Lawrence. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977.

Meyers, Jeffrey, ed. The Legacy of D. H. Lawrence: New Essays. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1987.

Ross, Charles, L. Women in Love: A Novel of Mythic Realism. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.

Smith, Anne, ed. Lawrence and Women. London: Vision, 1978.

Williams, Raymond. The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence. 1970. Reprint: London: Hogarth Press, 1984.

Other Works of Interest

Baudelaire, Charles. Selected Poems. Chosen and translated with an introduction by Joanna Richardson. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Classics, 1975.

Eliot, T. S. “Portrait of a Lady” in The Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.

Kierkegaard, Søren. A Kierkegaard Anthology. 1946. Edited by Robert Bretall. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Other Works Cited in the Introduction

Burgess, Anthony. Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence. New York: Arbor House, 1985.

Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003.

——. The Rainbow. Everyman’s Library Series. New York: Random House, 1993.

——. The Selected Letters of D. H.Lawrence. Compiled and edited by James T. Boulton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Moore, Harry, T. The Priest of Love: A Life of D. H. Lawrence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.

Oates, Joyce Carol. “Lawrence’s ‘Gotterdammerung’: The Tragic Vision of ‘Women in Love.’ ” Reprinted in D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love. Modern Library. New York: Random House, 1993.

Rimbaud, Arthur. “Delirium I.” In A Season in Hell. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1945.

a

To take a step backward (or retreat) the better to jump (forward) (French).

b

Pants made of durable cotton.

c

Loose-fitting overcoat.

d

Defender of culture (German).

e

See the Bible, Matthew 7:26-27.

f

Nickname for Theobald.

g

Property spelled gynoecious, it means plants whose flowers are always female. †Androecious is the proper term, meaning plants whose flowers are always male.

h

Reference to the apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which Eve gave to Adam; see the Bible, Genesis 2-3.

i

Reference to the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) in which the Lady uses images in a mirror to weave a tapestry.

j

Serpent guard of the oracle at Delphi slain by the Greek god Apollo.

k

Deep gorges at the bottom of broad valleys.

l

For me, she doesn’t exist (French). Ursula is clearly envious of Hermione, which may account in part for her sudden interest in Birkin, as Hermione and Birkin are an “item.”

m

Down to earth (French).

n

French classical dramatist Pierre Corneille (1606-1684).

o

Idon’t care (French).

p

Luxury hotel in Piccadilly in London.

q

Empire: a London music hall; Gaby Deslys: French music hall performer (1881-1920).

r

Mist bank around Brocken Mountain, in the Harz region of Germany, that magnifies and reflects an observer’s shadow.

s

See the Bible, Luke 10:25-37.

t

Bohemian district in London.

u

Fictional café modeled on the Café Royal on Regent Street.

v

Lines from the poem “Love Among the Ruins,” by Robert Browning (1812-1889).

w

Reference to a line from act 2, scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

x

Early twentieth-century art movement that glorified machines and emphasized speed, power, and the overall restlessness of the modern age; Lawrence befriended some Futurist artists in Italy before World War I.

y

English novelist George Meredith (1828-1909), whose novels were known for their study of character.

z

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), who served twice as British prime minister during Queen Victoria’s reign.

aa

A near-quote of a line from “On First Looking into Chapman’s ‘Homer,’” by John Keats (1795-1821).

ab

Fathers and Sons (1862), a novel, is considered the masterpiece of Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883).

ac

One