Who is Hermione Roddice from Women in Love and what is their importance?

Hermione stands for the purely intellectual woman, who cannot approach a person, or life, excpet through the inttelect. She is highly bred, but she understands that she should be more democratic in her society, so she stoops to the company of the Brangwen sisters, but they are both aware of her falseness, because Hermione is not spontaneous with herself, everything goes through her mind.

From the beginning of the novel, Hermione has a relationship with Birkin, but Birkin hates her purely mental satisfactions, and ultimately torments her so much that she boffs him on the head with a stone paperweight. She nearly kills him with the first blow, but he protects himself from the second, which might have finished him off.