"THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY" - D.H. LAWRENCE
"THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY" - D.H. LAWRENCE . The Virgin and the Gipsy is a 1930 novella by English author D. H. Lawrence . It was written in 1926 and published posthumously in 1930. Today it is often titled The Virgin and the Gypsy, which can cause confusion because early editions used the spelling "Gipsy". D. H. Lawrence is famous for Lady Chatterley’s Lover , a novel about love, class, marriage, and sexuality. It was controversial because of its explicit sexual content and was famously involved in an obscenity trial in the UK . The Virgin and the Gypsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence died in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gypsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels. Set in a small village in the English countryside , it tells the story of a sheltered rector's daughter whose lif...
