Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence

Written in 1928 (and being Lawrence’s last novel) Lady Chatterley, along with Sons and Lovers, is one of his most famous novels. But is that because of the controversy? Because of the fact that Lawrence decided for once to go beyond and write about love and sex. To write, explicitly, about sexual partners and experiences. In Sons and Lovers Lawrence’s portrays different aspects of love. Here, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover he portrays different aspects of sex. There is no doubt that Sons and Lovers is Lawrence’s best work, but is Lady Chatterley’s ...

I had had this book lying around for ages after buying it as one of those books that I thought I should read, but I had never actually got round to it. So a few weeks ago, I decided to sit down and see what all the fuss was about and whether it really was as shocking as all the hype made it out to be. The plot The book centres around a woman called Connie who is trapped in an unhappy marriage to a husband who is wheelchair-bound. She craves love, attention and excitement, but he is unable to give it to her due to his own preoccupations and own self-absorbtion. She seeks solace in the arms of their rather gruff gamekeeper, Mellors, and the book is a long ...

David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood close to Nottingham. His father was a miner, his mother a teacher. She was the one to make it possible for him to study, and not only to study at school but also at a university, an unusual chance for a person from his background at that time. After finishing his degree at the University College in Nottingham in 1908, Lawrence published his first poems in ?English Review?. He taught at a school in London for three years, until in 1911 he started suffering from tuberculosis. During the World War I, Lawrence drew unjustified suspicion to himself and was even for a while suspected of being a German ...