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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
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

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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