Women in Love · Character
Thomas Crich
A dying mine owner who has spent a lifetime converting his fortune into kindness, leaving his son Gerald to inherit an industry and a conscience he cannot reconcile.
supporting
Also known as Thomas, Love Thomas Crich, Mr. Crich, Poor Mr. Crich
First appearance: ii shortlands
As a supporting figure in Women in Love, Thomas Crich is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Thomas Crich is a fading, charitable figure who withdraws from the world as Gerald takes over the firm.
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 loving his workers rather than mastering them has left Gerald with an industrial machine and no belief in the order it upholds. His slow dying is the quiet pressure beneath the Crich household, shaping Gerald's numbness and the novel's questions about what a man passes on.
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Character Web
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- Social
- Other
Character groups
- Family and social backdrop
- Artistic and destructive passions
- Bohemian and Continental circle
- Protagonist
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- Gudrun Brangwen
social · ambivalent
Distant, formal interactions as Gudrun observes the dying patriarch of the Crich family. How this plays out →
- Ursula Brangwen
social · neutral
- Gudrun Brangwen
social · ambivalent
Distant, formal interactions as Gudrun observes the dying patriarch of the Crich family. How this plays out →
- Ursula Brangwen
social · neutral
- Gudrun Brangwen
social · ambivalent
Distant, formal interactions as Gudrun observes the dying patriarch of the Crich family. How this plays out →
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