He resents Ursula and Gudrun’s independence. Ursula and Gudrun’s father, he is a handicraft teacher with very conventional moral standards and beliefs. Brindall the youngerĪ guest at the Crich party who drowns in an attempt to save Diana Crich. Rupert Birkin’s landlady and servant at the mill house. The laborer’s wife at the mill house, where Rupert Birkin rents rooms. Hermione’s brother and a member of the British Parliament. Sir Joshua MatthesonĪn English Baronet and famous sociologist, a guest at Hermione Roddice’s estate. Fraulein MarzĪ guest at Hermione Roddice's estate. Palestra, the Italian ContessaĪ guest at Hermione Roddice's estate. Miss BradleyĪ guest at Hermione Roddice’s estate. Maxim LibidnikovĪ young Russian living in London, who is friends with Julius Halliday. Julius HallidayĪ roguish Bohemian of London, who owns the house in Soho where Rupert rents a room. Minette DarringtonĪlso referred to as the Pussum, a young Bohemian Londoner whom Birkin knows and introduces to Gerald Crich. One of the Crich daughters, her wedding takes place at the beginning of the novel Lupton She is portrayed as a cold and distant women largely uninterested in her children's lives. Thomas Crich’s wife and mother to Gerald. His character represents a bygone era of English industry, and a Christian morality based on beneficence toward the poor and the working class. The chief owner of mines in the region around Beldover. She is in love with Birkin, and wants to subjugate herself to him completely. Hermione RoddiceĪ friend of the Crich family, she is also Rupert Birkin’s sometime lover. He is a spirited character with passionate ideas about developing creative souls, but he also suffers many physical ailments and sickness. Birkin’s character can be loosely associated with D.H. Rupert BirkinĪ country school inspector who falls in love with Ursula Brangwen. Gerald’s character is divided between a heroic, mythical soul of the past, and a keen modern intellect for pushing technological advancement in his family's mining company. The oldest son of Thomas Crich, he falls in love with Gudrun Brangwen. But she struggles to reconcile her animalistic passion with her convictions.
Gudrun is unique and temperamental, yearning for an artist's way of life as an escape from the drudgery of reality. She falls for Gerald Crich upon seeing him at his sister’s wedding at the beginning of the novel.
The younger Brangwen sister, she has recently returned from a life in the arts in London, where she spent time among the social elite. Though at first she believes marriage is a trap for women like her, she finds a way to navigate what is expected of women of her time, and what she desires. She falls in love with Rupert Birkin after seeing him at the Crich wedding at the beginning of the novel. She is somewhat less worldly than her sister, Gudrun. The older Brangwen sister, Ursula is a schoolteacher.
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