Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence. As its name suggests, the novel follows the extramarital affair between Lady Constance Chatterley and her husband’s gamekeepers Oliver Mellors. Constance is frustrated by her unsatisfying life with her partially paralysed husband Clifford and gradually grows closer to the seemingly uncouth but ultimately kind and tender Mellors, in spite of the gulf in social class that separates them. The novel’s explicit sexual content and language meant that it was heavily censored when it was first published, and the later release of an unexpurgated edition resulted in an obscenity trial in Britain in 1960. It is arguably D. H. Lawrence’s best-known novel; his other works include Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow, both of which are regularly ranked among the greatest novels of the 20th century.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
• Release date: Mar 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9782808014502

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ENGLISH NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT, POET, ESSAYIST, BIOGRAPHER AND TRAVEL WRITER

Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire in 1885.

Died in Vence, France in 1930.

Notable works:

Sons and Lovers (1913), novel

The Rainbow (1915), novel

Women in Love (1920), novel

D. H. Lawrence (in full David Herbert Lawrence) grew up in a coal mining village in the English Midlands. His father was a miner and his mother had been a school teacher. He too became a teacher, gaining his teaching qualification at Nottingham University College in 1908. Lawrence was already writing poetry and short stories and working on his first novel, Laetitia (published in 1911 as The White Peacock). In 1912 he travelled to Italy with Frieda Von Richthofen Weekly (whom he married in 1914), where he wrote the final version of the semi-autobiographical Sons and Lovers. The Rainbow and Women in Love, often considered his masterpieces, developed out of one long novel, The Sisters. The Rainbow was published in London in September 1915 but was subsequently suppressed and banned as obscene. An expurgated edition was published in the United States in November of the same year. Lawrence could not find a publisher in England for Lady Chatterley’s Lover and published it privately in Florence in