Dec 17, 2009

The Rainbow | The Rainbow

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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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