Women in Love is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrences greatest novel. The novel continues where The Rainbow left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursulas with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, though he gives that up, and Gudruns with Gerald Crich, an industrialist, and later with a sculptor, Loerke.