The Virgin And The Gypsy/St Mawr: D.H. LawrenceThe Virgin And The Gypsy: Discovered after Lawrence's death and recognised as a Lawrentian distillation of sexuality and morality. Set in a small village in the English countryside, a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter yearns for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When she meets a handsome young gipsy whose life appears different from hers in every way, she is immediately smitten and yet still paralysed by her own fear and social