戴·赫·劳伦斯，（David Herbert Lawrence，1885～1930）英国诗人、小说家、散文家。出生于矿工家庭，当过屠户会计、厂商雇员和小学教师，曾在国内外漂泊十多年，对现实抱批判否定态度。他写过诗，但主要写长篇小说，共有10部，著名的为《虹》（1915）、《爱恋中的女人》（1921）和《查太莱夫人的情人》（1928）。

《恋爱中的女人》围绕两对恋人的情感纠葛展开：女教师厄休拉和督学伯基怀着对生命的热爱，冲破重重阻隔，有情人终成眷属；厄休拉的妹妹葛珍和矿业巨头杰拉尔德则由于双方观念上的巨大差异，经历了无数次冲突后最终关系破裂，杰拉尔德最终在荒芜死寂、风雪迷漫的深谷里结束了自己的生命。

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds.
"Ursula," said Gudrun, "don't you really want to get married?" Ursula laid her embroidery in her lap and looked up. Her face was calm and considerate.
"I don't know," she replied. "It depends how you mean."
Gudrun was slightly taken aback. She watched her sister for some moments.
"Well," she said, ironically, "it usually means one thing! But don't you think anyhow, you'd be—" she darkened slightly—"in a better position than you are in now."
A shadow came over Ursula's face.
"I might," she said. "But I'm not sure."
Again Gudrun paused, slightly irritated. She wanted to be quite definite.
"You don't think one needs the experience of having been married?" she asked.
"Do you think it need be an experience?" replied Ursula.