Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Lady Chatterly's Lover - A Novel About Life and Vitality
The motivation for Lady Chatterly's lover is that Lawrence was dying. He wrote the book in 1928 but he was dead by 1930. Frida's freedom, sexual freedom, was both Lawrence's muse and his personal curse. It's a novel about life by a man who was living in death; it's a novel of sex by a man now impotent.
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