The Rainbow
Rainbow, The,a novel by D. H. Lawrence , published 1915 .
It opens as a family chronicle relating the history of the long-established Brangwen family of Marsh Farm, on the Derbyshire–Nottinghamshire border. Tom Brangwen marries the vicar's housekeeper, a Polish widow who already has a daughter, Anna, by her first marriage. Tom takes the child to his heart. Anna marries Will Brangwen, Tom's nephew, a craftsman and draughtsman at a lace factory; they move into Yew Tree Cottage, Cossethay, and produce over the succeeding years a large family, of which the two eldest are Ursula and Gudrun of Women in Love . Ursula becomes the ‘child of her father's heart’, and the interest of the novel gradually shifts to her developing consciousness. When she is about 8 her grandfather is drowned one night when the canal embankment bursts, and Ursula grows close to her grandmother Lydia at the Marsh, intrigued by her Polish heritage; her...
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