Women in Love

Ursula Brangwen

The older Brangwen sister, Ursula is a schoolteacher. She is less wordly than her sister, Gudrun. She falls in love with Rupert Birkin after seeing him at the Crich wedding at the beginnin of the novel. Though at first she believes that marraige is a trap for women like her, she finds a way to navigate what is expected of women of her time and what she desires.

Gudrun Brangwen

The younger Brangwen sister, she has recently returned from a life in the arts in London, where she spent time among the social elite. She falls for Gerald Crich upon seeing him at his sister´s wedding at the beginning of the novel. Gudrun is unique and temperamental, yearning for an artist´s way of life as an escape from the drudgery of reality. But she struggles to reconcile her animalistic pasion with her convictions.

Gerald Crich

The oldest son of Thomas Crich, he falls in love with Gudrun Brangwen. Gerald´s character is divided between a heroic, mythical soul of the past, and a keen modern intellect for pushing technological advancement in his family´s mining company.

Rupert Birkin

A country school inspector who falls in love with Ursula Brangwen. Birkin´s character can be looseley associated with D.H. Lawrence himself. He is a spirited character with passionate ideas about developing creative souls, but he also suffers many physical ailments and sickness.

Hermione Roddice

A friend of the Crich family, she is also Rupert Birkin´s sometimes lover. She is in love with Birkin, and wants to subjugate herself to him completely.

Mr. Thomas Crich

The chief owner of mines in the region around Beldover. His character represents a bygone era of English industry, and a Christian morality based on beneficence toward the poor and the working class

Mrs. Christiana Crich

Thomas Crich´s wife and mother to Gerald. She is portrayed as a cold and distant women largely uninterested in her children´s lives

Laura Crich

One of the Crich daughters, her wedding takes place at the begining of the novel

Lupton

Laura Crich´s husband

Minette Darrington

Also referred to as the Pussum, a young Bohemian Londoner whom Birkin knows and introduces to Gerald Crich. Gerald and Minette have a brief affair

Julius Halliday

A roguish Bohemian of London, who owns the house in Soho where Rupert rents a room

Maxim Libidnikov

A young Russian living in London, who is friends with Julius Halliday

Miss Bradley

A gues at Hermione Roddice´s estate

Palestra, the Italian Contessa

A guest at Hermione Roddice´s estate

Fraulein Marz

A guest at Hermione Roddice´s estate

Sir Joshua Mattheson

An English Baronet and famous sociologist, a guest at Hermione Roddice´s estate

Alexander Roddice

Hermione´s brother and a member of the British Parliament

Mrs. Salmon

The laborer´s wife at the mill house, where Ruper Birkin rents rooms

Mrs. Daykin

Ruper Birkin´s landlady and servant at the mill house

Dr. Brindall the younger

A guest at the Crich party who drowns in an attempt to save Diana Crich

Tom Brangwen

Ursula and Gudrun´s father, he is a handicraft teacher with very conventional moral standards and beliefs. He resents Ursula and Gudrun´s independence

Anna Brangwen

Ursula and Gudrun´s mother, she is fairly quite and reserved, but compassionate

Billy Brangwen and Dora Brangwen

Ursula and Gudrun´s younger brother and sister

Mrs. Kirk

A Beldover resident. The Brangwen sisters stop at her cottage to buy honey

Winifred Crich

Gerald´s younger sibling and the apple of Mr. Crich´s eye, Winifred is artistically inclined and becomes Gudrun´s pupil

Herr Professor

A German professor that Ursula, Gurdrun, Gerlad and Birkin meet in a hostel near Innsbruck

Herr Loerke

A sculptor who is one of the hostel guests. He is a tiny and odd-looking man, who develops an affinity with Gudrun based on their mutual estimation of art (also a pedofile)

Leitner

Loerke´s companion, he is young and athletic and stands out against Loerke´s creaturely appearance

Diana Crich

Gerald´s younger sister. She drowns during the Crich family water-party

Doctor Brindell

The young doctor who dies while trying to save Diana Crich. Their bodies are found together the next morning, the girl´s hands around the man´s throat