The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd: A Drama In Three Acts

by D. H. Lawrence

2021-01-08 05:57:32

"The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and, like the short story, deals w... Read more
"The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and, like the short story, deals with a catastrophe in the lives of a coal mining family. Drawing upon the intensity of events that unfold in the miner's kitchen, the play explores a marriage bowed under the weight of a husband's drinking and infidelity and peers into the strange, burgeoning relationship between the neglected wife, Mrs. Holroyd, and the young electrician in whom she seeks emotional refuge. First published in 1914, The "Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd" is a bare tracing of the ways in which a marriage has gone wrong. Less

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File size7.12 X 5.02 X 0.34 in
Print pages112
PublisherNabu Press
Publication date May 1, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780812218176
David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. Some ...

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