# Winifred Crich — Women in Love character guide

> Winifred Crich in Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Win, Winnie, Winifred, Fred, Miss Winifred

**First appearance:** 0008-ix-coal-dust

## Snapshot

Gerald's youngest sister, a sharp, self-possessed girl of fourteen who prefers her pet rabbit and her own drawings to the adult dramas unfolding around her.

## Who they are

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 into the Crich world. Through Winifred, the novel measures the distance between the children who still play and the adults who are already, in Birkin's phrase, doomed.

## Relationships

### [Gudrun Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/gudrun_brangwen)

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Gudrun serves as Winifred's art tutor, forming a close but unequal bond.

### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/ursula_brangwen)

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Friendly, supportive bond through Winifred's art lessons with Gudrun.

### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/ursula_brangwen)

_friendship_

Friendly, supportive bond through Winifred's art lessons with Gudrun.

### [Gudrun Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/gudrun_brangwen)

_professional_

Gudrun serves as Winifred's art tutor, forming a close but unequal bond.

### [Gudrun Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/gudrun_brangwen)

_professional_

Gudrun serves as Winifred's art tutor, forming a close but unequal bond.

### [Ursula Brangwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/characters/ursula_brangwen)

_friendship_

Friendly, supportive bond through Winifred's art lessons with Gudrun.

## In the story

### [Man to Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xvi-man-to-man)

Mentioned as being clever with plasticine and a potential art student of Gudrun.

### [Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xviii-rabbit)

Detached, ironic child who bonds with Gudrun over drawing her pets, especially the rabbit Bismarck.

### [Threshold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxi-threshold)

Questions Gudrun about her father's death, prepares a bouquet for Gudrun with romantic anticipation, and displays a subtle, knowing demeanor.

### [XXII: Woman to Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxii-woman-to-woman)

Expected to come to tea with Gudrun but does not appear in the chapter.

### [Death and Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_in_love_se/chapters/xxiv-death-and-love)

Winifred is present in the household, briefly interacting with Gudrun and Gerald, and goes to see her father before he sleeps.

## Links

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