And so if The Rainbow ends on a note of revelatory hope-the potential birth of a new world- Women in Love ends in snowblind Alpine apocalypse, somewhere between the visionary Romantic Frankenstein and the forthcoming modernist summa of Mann’s Magic Mountain. In the seven years between his commencement of the novel in 1913 and the publication of Women in Love in 1920 intervenes his elopement to her native Germany with his former professor’s wife Frieda Weekley ( née von Richthofen), the censorship and burning of The Rainbow in England, and the Great War. Seeking an escape from the accomplished naturalism of his breakout novel, Sons and Lovers, into something more like myth, tragedy, or prophecy, he wanted to write a mighty book with a mission no less grand than to repair the division between men and women and to restore the wholeness of a society torn by industrial modernity. Lawrence conceived The Rainbow and Women in Love as a unity, a single novel under the title The Sisters or The Wedding Ring.
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