# Gudrun Brangwen — Women in Love character guide > Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence. **Role:** major **Also known as:** Gudrun, Brangwen, Poor Gudrun, Miss Brangwen, Miss Art - Teacher Brangwen **First appearance:** 0000-i-sisters ## Snapshot An artist with a sulky, watchful face and a talent for antagonism, Gudrun Brangwen advances into the Criches' world already backing away from it. ## Who they are 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 chumminess of young men, even as she recognizes she would do the same herself. Her attraction to Gerald Crich carries a destructive charge that gives the novel its coldest, most modern current. ## Relationships ### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/ursula_brangwen) _family_ Sisters with a deep, often tense bond marked by rivalry and mutual understanding. ### [Loerke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/loerke) _romantic_ A destructive, obsessive affair marked by mutual manipulation and artistic fascination. ### [Rupert Birkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/rupert_birkin) _psychological_ A tense, intellectual sparring relationship where Gudrun resists Birkin's influence. ### [Hermione Roddice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/hermione_roddice) _social_ Acquaintances bound by social circles, with underlying disdain and rivalry. ### [Winifred Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/winifred_crich) _professional_ Gudrun serves as Winifred's art tutor, forming a close but unequal bond. ### [Thomas Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/thomas_crich) _social_ Distant, formal interactions as Gudrun observes the dying patriarch of the Crich family. ### [Diana Crich](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/diana_crich) _social_ Brief, superficial acquaintance within the Crich household. ### [Halliday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/halliday) _social_ Casual, dismissive acquaintance within the bohemian circle. ### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/ursula_brangwen) _family_ Sisters with a deep, often tense bond marked by rivalry and mutual understanding. ### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/ursula_brangwen) _family_ Sisters with a deep, often tense bond marked by rivalry and mutual understanding. ### [Rupert Birkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/rupert_birkin) _psychological_ A tense, intellectual sparring relationship where Gudrun resists Birkin's influence. ### [Hermione Roddice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/hermione_roddice) _social_ Acquaintances bound by social circles, with underlying disdain and rivalry. ## In the story ### [Sisters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/i-sisters) Gudrun is aloof and critical, finding the town ugly and the people intrusive. She is magnetized by Gerald Crich and resents being drawn into emotional discussions. ### [Diver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/iv-diver) Expresses intense envy of male freedom while watching Gerald swim; feels trapped by societal constraints. ### [VIII: Breadalby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/viii-breadalby) Critical and observant at the luncheon, she performs in the dance as Ruth, clinging to Ursula with desperate passion and subtle malevolence, attracting Gerald's attention. ### [IX: Coal-Dust](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/ix-coal-dust) Feels a potent, half-repulsive attraction to the mining district and its men; walks the streets with Palmer, experiencing a nostalgia for the place. ### [X: Sketchbook](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/x-sketchbook) Sketching water-plants; experiences a trance-like absorption and a powerful, silent connection with Gerald. ### [XIV: Water-Party](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xiv-water-party) Dressed in bold colors, she defies social norms and becomes fixated on Gerald's body as he dives, sensing a fatal connection. ### [Man to Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xvi-man-to-man) Mentioned by Gerald as a potential art teacher for Winifred, and as the one who hit him at the party. ### [The Industrial Magnate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xvii-the-industrial-magnate) Gudrun grows indifferent to Gerald and schemes to leave for St. Petersburg or other European cities. ### [Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xviii-rabbit) Arrives at Shortlands as Winifred's tutor, aware it signifies accepting Gerald as a lover; engages in drawing sessions and a tense rabbit encounter with Gerald. ### [Moony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xix-moony) Shares intimate confidences with Ursula, criticizing Birkin's domineering nature; her finality and dispatching of people jars Ursula. ### [Threshold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxi-threshold) Engages in a cynical discussion about marriage and love with Gerald, exposes Birkin's ideals, and feels a dark, licentious attraction to Gerald. ### [XXII: Woman to Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxii-woman-to-woman) Expected to come to tea with Winifred Crich but does not appear in the chapter. ### [Death and Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxiv-death-and-love) Gudrun is drawn to Gerald's dangerous, foreign beauty. She kisses him and touches his face with a consuming desire for knowledge, yet she also feels his doom-like pursuit and holds herself in check. ### [XXV: Marriage or Not](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxv-marriage-or-not) Gerald proposes a double wedding with her and Ursula, but she is not directly featured in the excerpts. ### [A Chair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxvi-a-chair) Mentioned alongside Gerald as part of the broader social circle Birkin wishes to include. ### [Flitting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxvii-flitting) Ambivalent about marriage; envies Ursula's freedom but longs for stability with Gerald; feels unsatisfied and rootless. ### [Gudrun in the Pompadour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxviii-gudrun-in-the-pompadour) Visits the Pompadour Café with Gerald, loathes the atmosphere but feels compelled to return. Enraged by Halliday's group mocking Birkin, she steals Birkin's letter and leaves. ### [Continental](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxix-continental) Engages in a psychological battle with Gerald, admiring and despising Ursula, and feeling a sense of power and ruthlessness. ### [Snowed Up](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxx-snowed-up) Deepens her connection with Loerke, rejecting Gerald and her married name; coldly confronts Gerald about love. ### [XXXI: Exeunt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxxi-exeunt) Gudrun remains impassive and cold after Gerald's death, avoids contact, and feels trapped by the tragedy. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/gudrun_brangwen - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters