One day, not long before her due date, a fair comes to town and Mrs. Morel has a second child, Annie, and then gets pregnant with a third. She focuses all her love on her son and delights in planning for his future and watching him grow up. Morel is horrified, and this action drives a wedge between her and her husband. Morel comes downstairs and finds that Mr. One morning, when William is a toddler, Mrs. Morel are still friendly with each other, she has lost interest in him and the rift between them widens after the birth of the child. Morel gives birth to a son, who she names William, and she adores him immensely. She dislikes life in the mining community and does not get along with the other women, who find her haughty and superior. She discovers that Walter is not as wealthy as she believed and that they do not own the house they live in, but rather rent it from Walter’s mother. Morel finds that she cannot really talk to her husband and that, despite their initial attraction, the couple have little in common.

The first few months of their marriage are happy, but Mrs. The pair are married a few months later and soon Mrs. Although Gertrude has a religious and ascetic temperament, she is attracted to Walter Morel’s vigorous nature and thinks he is very handsome when she sees him dance at the party. Morel), an intelligent young woman from a middle-class English family, meets a young miner, Mr. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.Gertrude (soon to be Mrs. Set in Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes'' The Penguin English Library Edition of Sons and Lovers by D.

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