<P> Lawrence rewrote the work four times until he was happy with it . Although before publication the work was usually titled Paul Morel, Lawrence finally settled on Sons and Lovers . </P> <P> The refined daughter of a "good old burgher family," Gertrude Coppard meets a rough - hewn miner, Walter Morel, at a Christmas dance and falls into a whirlwind romance characterised by physical passion . But soon after her marriage to Walter, she realises the difficulties of living off his meagre salary in a rented house . The couple fight and drift apart and Walter retreats to the pub after work each day . Gradually, Mrs. Morel's affections shift to her sons beginning with the oldest, William . </P> <P> As a boy, William is so attached to his mother that he doesn't enjoy the fair without her . As he grows older, he defends her against his father's occasional violence . Eventually, he leaves their Nottinghamshire home for a job in London, where he begins to rise up into the middle class . He is engaged, but he detests the girl's superficiality . He dies and Mrs. Morel is heartbroken, but when Paul catches pneumonia she rediscovers her love for her second son . </P> <P> Both repulsed by and drawn to his mother, Paul is afraid to leave her but wants to go out on his own, and needs to experience love . Gradually, he falls into a relationship with Miriam, a farmer's daughter who attends his church . The two take long walks and have intellectual conversations about books but Paul resists, in part because his mother disapproves . At Miriam's family's farm, Paul meets Clara Dawes, a young woman with, apparently, feminist sympathies who has separated from her husband, Baxter . </P>

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