Written and privately published in Florence in 1928, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was denied unexpurgated publication in England until a celebrated highcourt judgement in 1960.
D. H. Lawrence’s uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexually explicit language with the passionate relationship between Lady Constance Chatter]ey and her husband’s forthright and powerfully masculine gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband’s return from the trenches of the First World War partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her for ever...
Written and privately published in Florence in 1928, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was denied unexpurgated publication in England until a celebrated highcourt judgement in 1960.
D. H. Lawrence’s uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexually explicit language with the passionate relationship between Lady Constance Chatter]ey and her husband’s forthright and powerfully masculine gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband’s return from the trenches of the First World War partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her for ever.
Emotionally as well as physically crippled by the cruel blows life has dealt him, Sir Clifford Chatterley is nevertheless enlightened enough to allow Connie a measure of freedom, but, when pregnant with Mellors’ child, she eventually confesses to the affair that threatens to become the subject of gossip, the reality of her association with his gamekeeper is more than he can bear. At first Sir Clifford refuses her a divorce but relents and at the end of the novel she finds herself free to make a new life with her charismatic lover. A watershed in twentieth-century literary fiction because of its senational content, the novel has earned for itself an enduring readership and lasting notoriety.
