The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd : : A Drama in Three Acts / / D. H. Lawrence.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lawrence, D. H.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bjorkman, Edwin,; Worthen, John,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bjorkman, Edwin.; Worthen, John.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Pine Street Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (112 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; INTRODUCTION --; THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD. THE FIRST ACT --; THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD. THE SECOND ACT --; THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD. THE THIRD ACT
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812292626; 9783110459548
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812292626
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: D. H. Lawrence.

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.