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Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are sisters living in The Midlands in England in the 1910s. Ursula is a schoolteacher, Gudrun a painter. They meet two men who live nearby, school inspector Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, heir to a coal mine, and the four become friends. Romantic relationships quickly develop as the novel progresses.
- D. H. Lawrence
- 1920
Gudrun Brangwen and Ursula Brangwen represent the challenges faced by women in pursuing personal fulfillment amidst societal pressures, while Gerald Crich highlights the negative effects of emotional repression on men.
Ursula Brangwen, a principal character of two novels, The Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love (1920), by D.H. Lawrence. In The Rainbow Ursula is a schoolteacher who is in love with Anton, the son of a Polish émigré. He proves to be too conventional for Ursula, and at the end of the novel she is alone.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ursula Brangwen. The older Brangwen sister, Ursula is a schoolteacher. She is somewhat less worldly than her sister, Gudrun. She falls in love with Rupert Birkin after seeing him at the Crich wedding at the beginning of the novel.
Two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, discuss marriage on their way to the wedding of Laura Crich, daughter of the town's wealthy mine owner, Thomas Crich, to Tibby Lupton, a naval officer.
Dec 14, 2001 · Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee.
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are living with their parents and teaching school in the mining town of Beldover. After gaining some reputation as a sculptor in London, Gudrun has returned home for uncertain reasons. They have a conversation about marriage.
