The Fox (novel)

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The Fox is a short novel by D. H. Lawrence published in 1923. Set in the Berkshire district of England during World War I, The Fox, like many of D. H. Lawrence’s other major works, treats the psychological relationships of three protagonists in a triangle mating-complex of love and hatred. Without the help of any male laborers, Nellie March and Jill Banford struggle to maintain a marginal livelihood at the Bailey Farm. A fox has raged through the poultry, and although the women—particularly the more nearly masculine Nellie—have tried to shoot the intruder, he seems always to elude traps or gunshot. Once Nellie...