The Rainbow (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Tom Brangwen, Lydia Lensky, Anna Lensky, Will Brangwen, Ursula Brangwen, Anton Skrebensky
- 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
The Story:
Tom Brangwen was descended from a long line of small landholders who had owned Marsh Farm in Nottinghamshire for many generations. Tom was a man of the soil, and he lived alone on his farm with only an old woman for his company and housekeeper. Then a Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, became the housekeeper of the vicar of the local church. She brought her small daughter, Anna, with her. One evening a few months later, Tom Brangwen found the courage to present the widow with a bouquet of daffodils in the vicar’s kitchen and to ask her to be his wife.
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D. H. Lawrence (Cyclopedia of World Authors)D. H. Lawrence (Poetry)D. H. Lawrence (Short Fiction)D. H. Lawrence (Long Fiction)D. H. Lawrence (Dictionary of World Biography)D. H. Lawrence (Censorship)
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