@article{oai:nitech.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001556, author = {Wicks, Izumi}, journal = {New Directions}, month = {Mar}, note = {This paper investigates the tangled and often irreconcilable relationship between D. H. Lawrence and women's suffrage movement. Lawrence wrote about women's suffrage in his works several times. For instance. in 'Study of Thomas Hardy', he praised suffragists as the bravest and most heroic, and their intentions as worthy and admirable (14).1But he disputed their situations as lamentable and pathetic because he thought they were in a pitfall of making more laws (15).Besides, he wrote in a letter to Sallie Hopkin, dated 23 December 1912, I shall do a novel about Love Triumphant one day. I shall do my work for women, better than the suffrage (LettersI. 490).2This utterances might be regarded as his criticism on women's suffrage. However, a deep concern about women's suffrage always lurked under his discourse about women, visibly or invisibly, in many of his works. Therefore, this paper reexamines his relationship with women's suffrage, and clears out his literary motivation arising from it almost throughout his life.4 specifically. I pick up two women who had been connected with suHragism and played important roles in Lawrence's writing, although their styles with suffragism were different and their ways to relate with Lawrence were also very different. One is Blanche Jennings, a judicious suffragette Lawrence came acquainted with in his young days, and the other is Dora Marsden, a radical suffragette, who later became dissident from suffragism after all.Then she became the founder and editor of a magazine that carried Lawrence's works several times. I examine what roles these women played in Lawrence's writing in Section 2 and Section 3 of this paper. Beforehand, in Section i, I research the historical peculiarity of Nottingham, the place where Lawrence studied, as a hotbed of suffrage movement in England. Finally, in Section 4, I examine how Lawrence treated this matter in his later days, picking up his essay, 'Red Trousers'., application/pdf}, pages = {49--62}, title = {D.H. Lawrence and Women's Suffrage: The Roles of Two Suffragettes, B. Jennings and D. Marsden, in His Writing}, volume = {27}, year = {2009} }