Lady Chat Chat – Uncensored

Lady C: The Long Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Guy Cuthbertson published 2026 Oh what perfect joy this was. I read DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover when I was a teenager, because of course we all did – banned for years, controversial and full of sexy bits. I was a keen reader of Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics (1970s literary feminism at its finest) and she had a long section on Lawrence, and particularly on Lady C. I read it through her eyes as a male-dominated fantasy, and I believe did enjoy it, though it was surprisingly full of long pages of other discussion (‘like all that Kitty and Levin agriculture in Anna Karenina’ as someone said to me). Never looked at it since. Guy Cuthbertson has featured here on the blog for this book Peace At Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 An absolutely marvellous look at the end of WW1. I said then ‘a monumental achievement. It contains a huge amount of research, brilliantly put together – I am in awe at the way…