The Rainbow (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Freedom, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Alienation, Individuality, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Lace or lace making
- Locales: Midlands, England
Places Discussed
Cossethay. Tiny Midlands village in which the Brangwens are living when the novel opens. The village is the center of a circle about two miles in diameter that provides all the important settings for the entire novel. The Marsh farmhouse, in which the Brangwens lived prior to the novel’s opening, is next to what was probably the path of the old Nottingham Canal on the embankment at Cossall Marsh, a real place that has been significantly altered by the development of coal mines, roads, and water passages.
West of Cossethay is Ilkeston, a town that...
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