The Rainbow
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Brandgwen family
Rip's impressions
The novel is a prequel to Women in Love, looking back to the 19th century however with a more modern free thinking view. Nevertheless prose and theological reflection are dense at times.
first line
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.
last lines
(spoiler alert)
She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven.
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