D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love is the sequel to The Rainbow (1915) and continues to follow the lives and loves of Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen. Through his merciless exploration of human character and relationships, Lawrence reveals the complexity of love and the human psyche and his passionate belief in the physical world of nature. Published privately in New York in 1920, Women in Love was at first considered a work of sexual depravity, but is today one of Lawrence's most acclaimed novels.