🌿💕Can Lady Chatterley's Lover still shock us 90 years on? As a DH Lawrence fan, this was a dream article for me to write (not just because its illustrated with pictures of The Bean in his glorious gamekeeper prime). Read it in tomorrow's Masterpiece issue of @countrylifemagazine 🍃💘
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90 years on, does Lady Chatterley’s Lover still have the power to shock?
In July 1928, D.H. Lawrence self-published Lady Chatterley's Lover in Florence, with an initial run of 2,000 copies; 90 years on it remains a milestone in English literature and law, perhaps more famous for the controversy it sparked than for its content. Annunciata Elwes revisits the book and finds that the shock, awe and four-letter words go a long way to obscuring the heart of the matter.
It’s been 90 years since the publication of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, but only 50 or so since the British invented sex – a conundrum that, with our national sense of irony, we can easily appreciate.
Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) –
Between the end of the ‘Chatterley’ ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/90-years-lady-chatterleys-lover-still-power-shock-181440
