DH Lawrence and Lady Chatterley: More

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence published 1928Lady C - outside in the grounds dressed in blue I explained in my previous post Lady Chat Chat – Uncensored how I was inspired to read Lady Chatterley’s Lover again by Guy Cuthbertson’s work about it. It was more than 50 years since I first read it, and some parts were very memorable – flowers on the lovers’ bodies, dancing naked in the rain. It all comes flooding back. The red trousers, Mellors’ views on orgasm and his mad views of women which should be misogynistic but aren’t quite as bad as all that (apart from wanting to kill all the lesbians). At least he’s interested in women’s orgasms, while having predictably black and white views on them. I couldn’t remember how the story ended, which isn’t surprising when you read it again, as it is an unsatisfactory and unresolved ending. Is the reader meant to guess what will happen to them? Screen adaptations tend to have something more definite in the end. The Ken Russell TV version,…