The entire work of the English novelist and poet David H. Lawrence is that of a great artist who portrays a world of people, drawing or describing emotions and temperaments. His themes are varied: family, individuals, loneliness, love, sensuality, depression and melancholy. The relationship between sex and literature is a very recurrent feature in his works, emphasizing the dignity and beauty of the human body, life as a possibility of plenitude, intelligence as a requirement and condition of freedom. The Virgin and the Gypsy represents the return of the mature Lawrence to his initial themes, although it was written between 1952-26, this book was not published until after his death (1930). In this novel one of the central motifs of his works reappears: love between distant social categories. Here this social distancing provides us with an important key to understanding Lady Chatterly, that wife, a silent spectator of her husband's literary passion while she wastes away in emptiness, longing for a child to fill her lonely heart with affection. The Virgin and the Gypsy is the story of a teenager who is born into adult love, while the gypsy, so alien to the protagonist's world, is the incarnation of the longings that push towards freedom, towards life, outside the closed and petty, servile and conformist environment of the living dead that Lawrence despised, but this love will be lived resisting all kinds of obstacles. Reading Lawrence, one of the most influential and controversial literary figures of the twentieth century, is a kind of adventure, a journey of discovery of new and strange things, because in each of his works he reflects a universe different from that of ordinary beings, showing us a brighter and more intense world with which, as we read, he frees us.