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The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

By D. H. Lawrence

2019-06-28 05:16:59

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd is a play by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1911 and the revised version was published in 1914 by Duckworth & Co. in London and Mitchell Kennerley in New York. It is the dramatization of Lawrence's s ... Read more
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd is a play by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1911 and the revised version was published in 1914 by Duckworth & Co. in London and Mitchell Kennerley in New York. It is the dramatization of Lawrence's short story "Odour of Chrysanthemums". Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, apparently patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. Sooner than she hoped, her wish comes true..... Less

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File size238.728 KB
Print pages168
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1981082445
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D.H Lawrence
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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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