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There were three complete versions of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the third being the standard text. John Thomas and Lady Jane was the second, and it has thus far been available only as an English-language paperback in Italy. Arcane as that fact may be, it has a certain poetic fitness, since Lawrence wrote this most lyrical draft in Italy, inspired partly by the sensual "bright and dancing" frescoes in the Etruscan tombs at Tarquinia. It is substantially longer than the famous version, but no more obscene-which is to say that today it seems...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover...
...most dangerous moment is when he's getting into his shirt," Oliver Mellors tells Lady Chatterley. "I prefer those American shirts that you put on like a jacket." Sure enough, while Maurice was trying on a particular shirt, "her ladyship ran her hand up and down my back." Came a day, after Maurice had driven Sir Francis to the airport for one more business trip, when she "entered the kitchen and said that she felt like cuddling and kissing me. I told her I was worried about my position. She replied, 'Nonsense...
There was a time in Williams' career when he thought of himself as a disciple of D.H. Lawrence, so it is probably no accident that the opening paragraph of Lady Chatterley's Lover should share some of the mood of Streetcar...
...What should women do about lovers who treat them only as sexual objects? Kate Millett suggests that women are virtually powerless before such men-Lady Chatterley before Mellors, for example. In celebrating the "transformation of masculine ascendancy into a mystical religion," D.H. Lawrence presents "sexual politics in its most overpowering form," she wrote. Katherine Anne Porter, no feminist at all but a perceptive novelist, analyzed the situation quite differently. "It is plain," she wrote in an essay eleven years ago, "that Lady Chatterley will shortly be looking for another man; I give Mellors two years at the rate...