The Virgin and the Gipsy Illustrated edition by D H Lawrence Literature Fiction eBooks
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‘The Virgin and the Gipsy’ was published after Lawrence’s death in 1930. It tells the story of two sisters (perhaps based on Frieda Lawrence’s daughters) who live in a stultifying rectory with their dreadful grandmother , weak father and frustrated aunt. The girls are torn between the need to lead a ‘respectable’ life and the need to fulfil themselves both socially and sexually. The older sister finally breaks free when a flood forces her into the arms of a sensual Gipsy.
The Virgin and the Gipsy Illustrated edition by D H Lawrence Literature Fiction eBooks
In this book, Lawrence is in usual top form in describing the longing of a young girl, a virgin, for the slightly unconventional. Her vision of her future being a stayed and commonplace marriage to one of the local boys of character and money, she longs for something else before that fate befalls her. She does find that love, very much by accident.She comes across a Gypsy and she falls deeply and viscerally in love with him. Yet, she is coy and she is proper about it. Although she badly wishes to be with him, she understands the potential scandal of such a union. Her father being one that is a non-believer, despite his position as the rector; she sees his revulsion for those things of the body. The rector's wife had left him for an impoverished boy. She sought something the rector just could not provide to her. Even though she was his everything, he was not able to make her feel the love she wished deeply even to her bones.
Her daughter too felt that there was more than just the future she envisioned. She felt that it was not a matter that could be ignored. It was a matter that had to be satisfied and soon. But how to do so, without being seen as a prostitute by her own family; that was the mystery and the beauty of the book.
Finally, amongst a great flood and terror that is more frightful than can be imagined, she finds herself with the Gypsy in her own bedroom, safe from the outside world of people because of the isolation and protection afforded by an unanticipated flood. Here she makes the passionate love to him that she had heretofore only dreamed about. Here she becomes a woman, and becomes a lover at the same time.
As always, Lawrence fills the text with serious metaphor and memory. He uses symbolism, systematically revealing the undercurrents of his character's huge love and anticipation with thinly veiled double entendres and images. This book is specifically recommended for Lawrence readers, but in addition, the book is highly recommended to those seeking love and those fulfilled in love.
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The Virgin and the Gipsy Illustrated edition by D H Lawrence Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
D.H. Lawrence's remains are here in New Mexico, on his former ranch that the University of New Mexico refuses to maintain. The most likely story is that his ashes were "vitrified," that is, place in a large glass slab by his wife, Frieda, to whom this book is dedicated. UNM's position is that "no one reads Lawrence anymore" and besides, we have to have enough money to pay our (losing) football coach more than a million bucks a year. Ah, priorities. Admittedly the reviews on this book at are not numerous, and we can only "revive" him one read at a time. I recently re-read The Rainbow Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics), and realized how much I had missed the first time around. And before I tackle the lengthy Sons and Lovers (Wordsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Collection), thought a concise novella might be in order.
And I was not disappointed. Other reviewers have said that this novella is a "distillation" of themes expressed in his longer works, and I believe that is essential true. There is the dreary boredom of provincial English village life compounded by an unhappy and dysfunctional family that transcends three generations. The "Queen Bee" as it were, is "Granny" or "Mater," ugly and obese, who lords (ladies?) it over the other two generations. Her two immediate children are the somewhat non-believing rector and the very unhappy Cissie, who, from time immemorial, has been the "dutiful" daughter who has had to sacrifice her own happiness, and aspirations in life, in order to take care of her parents. The rector has two daughters, Lucille and Yvette, 20 and 19, who have part of their mother's genes in them (her mother had abandoned the rector and her two young children, to take off with a lover). The two daughters dream of escape from the boredom and unhappiness of home life, as so many others have, also from time immemorial. Like Picasso, who could draw an entire picture with 13 or so lines, Lawrence deftly draws his own scathing portrait of this family situation with a few well-chosen sentences.
Enter the Gipsy. Tall, dark, exotic. The strong Ying and Yang elements are at play. Borrow a little from Greek drama, and have a "prophesy" from a fortune told. The Gipsy is more than just a "hunk," though, as Lawrence provides some background that demonstrates some character, which might be useful in the end. It is inevitable, right? Well, Lawrence pulls a brilliant "seduction interruptus," and prolongs the action, as it were. And when I am in the climatic phase of the book, I go, wait a minute... I've been here before. Certainly not in these particulars, but I have seen the movie!! The Virgin And The Gypsy [DVD] [1975]. Almost forty years ago, and I had forgotten it, but it is hard to forget completely such a dramatic ending. I dare say that normally women initiate (or are initiated) into the art of love-making in far less traumatic circumstances.
This work would be an excellent introduction to Lawrence, for those who have yet to read him. 5-stars.
UPDATE I'd like to think that the administration at UNM's ears were burning, but they apparently have re-opened the Lawrence ranch BEFORE I posted this review. Currently, it is open on a limited basis, three days a week, commencing with the beginning of July, through October.
D.H. Lawrence was a master of subtle seduction in this novel. I loved how simple the storyline was, how it seemed to go quietly from paragraph to paragraph without pomp, but the secret sensation that something sensual was afoot. Wonderfully written.
It is 30 years since I first read it, I have no idea why it was given to high school girls, it went on on ..and DH Lawrence thought he knew what women think, may be it was the movie I was remembering, the book was just boring..
Great book
I enjoy all of his books, but this is one I had neglected to read. It had fewer characters and a plot line that did not stray as much.
I bought the Audible version as an aid to completing the book; unfortunately, the narrator was incompatible with the voice in my head when I started by reading a print version. I am not sure that it was badly read, but it was jarring, so I finished reading the print version, much to my relief.
A young woman living a restricted life in the parsonage of her rector father miles from the nearby small town is restless and rebellious (mostly emotionally) and waiting for something to happen, some great love to come along, at least a way out of her staid life. When she meets a handsome, prideful, and slightly sinister gypsy, her senses come alive. When he saves her from a flood and spends the night with her (perhaps?), she is no longer an immature, rather spoiled ingenue. Lawrence is a great writer of human emotion, although his style for describing things is unique and may need getting used to. He has to be read in the context of his times.
In this book, Lawrence is in usual top form in describing the longing of a young girl, a virgin, for the slightly unconventional. Her vision of her future being a stayed and commonplace marriage to one of the local boys of character and money, she longs for something else before that fate befalls her. She does find that love, very much by accident.
She comes across a Gypsy and she falls deeply and viscerally in love with him. Yet, she is coy and she is proper about it. Although she badly wishes to be with him, she understands the potential scandal of such a union. Her father being one that is a non-believer, despite his position as the rector; she sees his revulsion for those things of the body. The rector's wife had left him for an impoverished boy. She sought something the rector just could not provide to her. Even though she was his everything, he was not able to make her feel the love she wished deeply even to her bones.
Her daughter too felt that there was more than just the future she envisioned. She felt that it was not a matter that could be ignored. It was a matter that had to be satisfied and soon. But how to do so, without being seen as a prostitute by her own family; that was the mystery and the beauty of the book.
Finally, amongst a great flood and terror that is more frightful than can be imagined, she finds herself with the Gypsy in her own bedroom, safe from the outside world of people because of the isolation and protection afforded by an unanticipated flood. Here she makes the passionate love to him that she had heretofore only dreamed about. Here she becomes a woman, and becomes a lover at the same time.
As always, Lawrence fills the text with serious metaphor and memory. He uses symbolism, systematically revealing the undercurrents of his character's huge love and anticipation with thinly veiled double entendres and images. This book is specifically recommended for Lawrence readers, but in addition, the book is highly recommended to those seeking love and those fulfilled in love.
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