Lady Chatterley’s Lover | Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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Author: D. H. Lawrence
First Published: 1928
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: 1910-1920
Setting: English Midlands, Venice, and London
Principal Characters: Lady Constance Chatterley, Sir Clifford Chatterley, Oliver Mellors, Bertha Coutts, Ivy Bolton, Malcolm Reid, Michaelis, Tommy Dukes
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
Subjects: Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Manners or customs, 1910’s, 1920’s, England or English people, War, Adultery, Illegitimacy, London, Ethics, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Pollution, Industrialization
Locales: London, England, Venice, Italy, Dresden, Germany

Constance (Connie) Chatterley felt that her life was empty and pointless. A well-educated young woman in her mid-twenties, she had married Sir Clifford Chatterley in 1917 when he was on leave and then had tried to remain cheerful and encouraging during the two years he spent recovering from severe wounds suffered when he returned to battle in France. Now that Clifford was paralyzed from the waist down, Connie’s life with him was primarily restricted to Wragby, the Chatterley family estate in the English midlands, where she assisted him with the short fiction he...

Lady Chatterley’s Lover | Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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