#LadyChatterleysLover surprised me in all the best ways. Yes, there's a Lady Chatterley, and yes, she takes a lover, and they do what lovers do. But it's way more than just that... I loved every page:

https://litcityblues.substack.com/p/lady-chatterleys-lover-a-review

#LadyChatterleysLover by #DHLawrence

Once banned, this classic remains a beautiful, provocative exploration of class, passion, and the human connection to nature. 🌿👩‍❤️‍👨📜

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2019/03/lady-chatterleys-lover-by-d-h-lawrence.html

#LadySusan by #JaneAusten

Meet Austen's most delightfully wicked heroine. A witty novel about a flirtatious widow who schemes to find husbands for her family. 💌😏💍

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2019/02/lady-susan-by-jane-austen.html

I started #reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and I'm not sure what to make of it yet.

I mean, I've only read a couple of chapters so it's early days.

But I've got a feeling its main USP is a controversial-for-the-time liberal attitude to sex and I'm not sure I'm going to find it all that interesting.

I'll give it a go though.

Actually, one concept that impressed me a lot is how it is mentioned one of the pits had been burning for years because it would take thousands of pounds to put out. So the surrounding area is permeated with burning and smoke.

It certainly sets a particular scene.

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Your gamekeeper is about to have a terrific day.

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I want to grapple more with D.H. Lawrence, in particular "The Rainbow" and "Women in Love".

I've read both but came away puzzled and dissatisfied. What did I miss? I've been nagged by a feeling for years that my inadequacies as a reader have obscured important themes from me. I don't have much time to do unrelated to work rereading, but I do have a hunch that understanding these two works will better my understanding of both my country and myself past and present.

Lawrence's reputation has never fully recovered from the attack mounted on his work by Kate Millett in the 1970 "Sexual Politics". Feminist scholarship following Millett contributed to the supersession of the Leavisite criticism that had championed Lawrence as the heir to the "Great Tradition" of moral seriousness in English literature, and that critical approach withered not only intellectually, but also institutionally as British literature and humanities departments came more and more under the sway of US academia's priorities and values; what place for Lawrence's rainswept reflections on the burdens of class in Britain on a sunny, tech infused Californian campus? Pointing to Lawrence in New Mexico or Australia just feels desperate...

My reading, however, is informed but not determined by what's in favor (note the spelling) in departments of literature. Kate Millett might have hated "Lady Chatterley's Lover", but I have found it a rich source not just for thinking about sex and gender but also language, class, technology, and disability in interwar Britain . I hope that a reread of "The Rainbow" and "Women in Love" will prove similarly rewarding.

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Image: D H Lawrence in 1921 -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain.

Literarischer #11September

„A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

#DHLawrence #LadyChatterleysLover Geburt 1885