Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H - 1920

New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1920 First edition. One of 1250 numbered copies. Original publisher's blue cloth. A bright and lightly rubbed copy, front hinge cracked and secure, rear hinge and endpaper expertly reinforced. Much nicer and brighter than usual. Women in Love chronicles the lives of three generations of Brangwens, a farming family from Nottinghamshire, whose livelihoods and relationships are affected by the industrialization of England. Lawrence originally intended the text, which he edited and revised for several years, to be titled "The Sisters," but eventually divided it into Women in Love and its prequel The Rainbow (1915). Because of the controversies surrounding The Rainbow, censored for Lawrence's unapologetic descriptions of the characters' sexual desires, Women in Love was initially rejected by "almost every publisher in London." Although Lawrence completed the manuscript in 1916, Women in Love was first published privately in New York in November 1920 before the first trade edition of June 1921. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.