One of literatures earliest examples of modernist writing D.H. Lawrences family saga focuses on the lives of successive generations of the Brangwen family from the 1840s up until the 1910s. Set in Nottinghamshire during the Industrial Revolution, Lawrence illustrates the positive and negative effects of these huge social and political upheavals on the Brangwens. Ursula Brangwen, the main heroine of the tale, is one of literatures first truly modern women and her story is continued in Women In Love. On its publication in 1915 the novel was seized by police and deemed as obscene due to its frank representation of female sexuality and rejection of the Christian faith.