# Women in Love — Character guide

> Key figures in Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.

- [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/ursula_brangwen.md): Ursula is the elder Brangwen sister, a teacher who enters the novel's social world — weddings, garden parties, classrooms — with an earnest desire to feel something real. She is drawn to Rupert Birkin's strange talk of l
- [Gudrun Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/gudrun_brangwen.md): Gudrun is the younger Brangwen sister, a sculptor and teacher whose eye for beauty is inseparable from her contempt for the ordinary. At the Crich garden party she bristles at Hermione's class superiority and at the easy
- [Rupert Birkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/rupert_birkin.md): Birkin moves through the novel as its restless theorist, flattering older women, provoking Gerald with talk of an additional perfect relationship between man and man, and pressing Ursula to accept something non-emotional
- [Gerald Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/gerald_crich.md): Gerald is the son of Thomas Crich, a man of white flannels and easy command who moves through the Criches' social world with an air of doomed willingness. He feels Birkin's offer of alliance as strangely elating, yet can
- [Hermione Roddice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/hermione_roddice.md): Hermione arrives at the Crich garden party in trailing embroidered silk, striking and almost macabre, so strongly entrenched in class superiority that she can collect people out of curiosity. She talks with Ursula about 
- [Loerke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/loerke.md): Loerke enters the novel's later social world as a sculptor whose work and talk appeal to Gudrun's own artistic severity, offering a kind of companionship that is all mind and no warmth. He is the counterweight to Gerald'
- [Thomas Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/thomas_crich.md): Thomas Crich is the patriarch of Shortlands, a colliery owner whose charitable impulse toward his miners has made him beloved and, in his son's eyes, weak. His long illness hangs over the family, and his insistence on lo
- [Winifred Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/winifred_crich.md): Winifred is the last child at Shortlands, half-sister to Gerald and Gerald's charge after their father's decline. She is willful, watchful, and quietly artistic, and her need for a drawing teacher draws Gudrun Brangwen i
- [Halliday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/halliday.md): A bohemian acquaintance of Birkin and Gerald in London.
- [Pussum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/pussum.md): A young woman in Halliday's circle, involved with Gerald briefly.
- [Mrs. Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/mrs_crich.md): Gerald's mother, a quiet and ailing woman.
- [Will Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/will_brangwen.md): Ursula and Gudrun's father, a craftsman and teacher.
- [Alexander Roddice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/alexander_roddice.md): Hermione's brother, a guest at Breadalby.
- [Diana Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/diana_crich.md): A younger Crich sister who drowns at the water party.
- [Laura Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/laura_crich.md): Another of Gerald's sisters.
- [Palmer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/palmer.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or acquaintance.
- [Maxim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/maxim.md): A guest at the Continental hotel.
- [Fräulein März](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/fraulein_marz.md): A German woman encountered by the characters abroad.

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