Word: chatterley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer the man in the street in his own language, Yes. With the exception of medical books and out & out pornography, the only book of modern times that can compare with it for outspokenness in barnyard and backhouse terms is the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. But Ulysses is far from being "just another dirty book." Judge Woolsey decided that its purpler passages are "emetic," rather than "aphrodisiac"; that the net effect of its 768 big pages is "a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women...
...LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER?D. H. Lawrence?Knopf...
Though many a U. S. sophisticate has read & snickered over Lady Chatterley's Lover, either in a pirated
...Lawrence's widow, would never have been permitted by Lawrence himself. For the book, now made respectable by excisions of many descriptive passages and Anglo-Saxon words, has also become suggestive and otherwise pointless. From a glorification of proper love-making and a sermon against sexual wrongs. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence once thought of calling it Tenderness} has become merely an ordinary adulterous tale. The plot of the original and the bowdlerized version is the same...
...Connie Chatterley, married to young, handsome Lord Clifford, thought that she was happy until the War crippled her husband. Even then she managed to get along. Clifford was clever, advanced, liberal in his ways. Connie began to have affairs with men. Then she met her husband's gamekeeper, Mellors. and for the first time in her life fell really in love. When she knew she was going to have a baby she left Clifford, who would not really mind, as he was beginning to have an infantile passion for his middle-aged nurse. The story ends with Connie making plans...