Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd: A Drama in Three Acts

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and, like the short story, deals with a catastrophe in the lives of a coal mining family. Drawing upon the intensity of events that unfold in the miner's kitchen, the play explores a marriage bowed under the weight of a husband's drinking and infidelity and peers into the strange, burgeoning relationship between the neglected wife, Mrs. Holroyd, and the young electrician in whom she seeks emotional refuge. First published in 1914, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd is a bare tracing of the ways in which a marriage has gone wrong.

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: Pine Street Books
Published: 05/15/2002
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780812218176

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2003 pg. 85 - Strongly Recommended

About the Author
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is the author of Women in Love, The White Peacock, and Sons and Lovers, among other works. John Worthen, Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham, is editor of the D. H. Lawrence Review and author of D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885-1912.