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Lady C – Reviews<\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – News<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Events<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nLady C – Giveaway<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Articles<\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Libraries<\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Bookshops<\/a><\/h3>\n—<\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-09-at-23.42.59-1-scaled-e1757458111770-198x300.png\")
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Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/span><\/em>(336 Pages<\/span>, 155 \u00d7 234 mm<\/span>, 16 b-w illus.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Lucy Worsley<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation\u2014and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s “dirty little book” has changed the world.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Cal Flyn<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny. Lady C<\/em> absolutely is<\/em> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Helen Lewis<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses’ \u00a0(<\/strong>Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a>; <\/strong>\u2018Book of the Day’ and ‘our selection of this year\u2019s hottest holiday reads\u2019 (The Guardian<\/em>); <\/a><\/strong>‘witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (<\/strong>Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a>; ‘deeply researched and highly readable’ (Nicholas Murray, TLS<\/i><\/a>); ‘Book of the Week’ (The Week UK<\/em><\/a>)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n*<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover, tracing its life over the last century<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nD. H. Lawrence\u2019s <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of the twentieth century. Originally considered obscene and unpublishable in numerous countries, its scandalous story of class divide and the English countryside is infamous. But, since the 1920s, we have repeatedly re-created <\/em>Lady Chatterley, from film and TV to music and tourism.<\/em><\/p>\nGuy Cuthbertson tells the colourful story of the novel\u2019s journey through the last hundred years. He examines how the book has been read, adapted, and reimagined across the globe, from the United States to Japan, and explores the 1960 \u201cChatterley trial\u201d\u2014a key moment in the struggle for freedom of expression. It might have been burnt and derided, laughed at and defaced, but Lawrence\u2019s novel has crept into all walks of life. Whether the book, or its influence, be good or bad, we live in a world that <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover helped to create.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
Lady C<\/em> is a book of many different people, from Fanny Hill to Benny Hill to Churchill, from Bowie to Bowra, from Powell to MacDowell, from Bean to Heaney. \u00a0It also includes many places, both New York and Newport Pagnell, both Tokyo and Torquay, both Mumbai and Munich. \u00a0It covers a century and it goes round the world.<\/p>\n—<\/p>\n
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\n‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’ – Lucy Worsley, author of Jane Austen at Home<\/em><\/p>\n‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation \u2013 and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s ‘dirty little book’ has changed the world.’\u2014Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cShrewd, even-handed, and frequently amusing, Lady C<\/em> is a gleefully exhaustive survey of reactions to one of the world’s most argued-over narratives.\u201d\u2014Robert Crawford, author of Eliot After the Waste Land<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cGuy Cuthbertson\u2019s \u2018life story\u2019 of Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover<\/em> is an intricate and engaging history of one of the most famous books in English literature. From its creation to its many afterlives, Cuthbertson deftly weaves a colourful biography of Lawrence\u2019s novel whose cultural resonance lies not only in its plot, but in its legal and popular reception across the decades.\u201d\u2014Jane Potter, author of Wilfred Owen<\/em><\/p>\n‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/i>went off like a bomb in buttoned-up post-war Britain, and almost no other writer escaped the shrapnel. Guy Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny.\u00a0Lady C <\/i>absolutely<\/span>\u00a0is<\/i> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’ – Helen Lewis, author of The Genius Myth<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2018an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses\u2019 \u00a0(Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018an enjoyable piece of social history\u2019 (Blake Morrison, \u2018Book of the Day\u2019, The Guardian<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n‘Guy Cuthbertson’s deeply researched and highly readable account’ (Nicholas Murray, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n
Lady C – Events<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nLady C – Giveaway<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Articles<\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Libraries<\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Bookshops<\/a><\/h3>\n—<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n*<\/h4>\n
Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/span><\/em>(336 Pages<\/span>, 155 \u00d7 234 mm<\/span>, 16 b-w illus.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Lucy Worsley<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation\u2014and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s “dirty little book” has changed the world.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Cal Flyn<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny. Lady C<\/em> absolutely is<\/em> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Helen Lewis<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses’ \u00a0(<\/strong>Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a>; <\/strong>\u2018Book of the Day’ and ‘our selection of this year\u2019s hottest holiday reads\u2019 (The Guardian<\/em>); <\/a><\/strong>‘witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (<\/strong>Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a>; ‘deeply researched and highly readable’ (Nicholas Murray, TLS<\/i><\/a>); ‘Book of the Week’ (The Week UK<\/em><\/a>)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n*<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover, tracing its life over the last century<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nD. H. Lawrence\u2019s <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of the twentieth century. Originally considered obscene and unpublishable in numerous countries, its scandalous story of class divide and the English countryside is infamous. But, since the 1920s, we have repeatedly re-created <\/em>Lady Chatterley, from film and TV to music and tourism.<\/em><\/p>\nGuy Cuthbertson tells the colourful story of the novel\u2019s journey through the last hundred years. He examines how the book has been read, adapted, and reimagined across the globe, from the United States to Japan, and explores the 1960 \u201cChatterley trial\u201d\u2014a key moment in the struggle for freedom of expression. It might have been burnt and derided, laughed at and defaced, but Lawrence\u2019s novel has crept into all walks of life. Whether the book, or its influence, be good or bad, we live in a world that <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover helped to create.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
Lady C<\/em> is a book of many different people, from Fanny Hill to Benny Hill to Churchill, from Bowie to Bowra, from Powell to MacDowell, from Bean to Heaney. \u00a0It also includes many places, both New York and Newport Pagnell, both Tokyo and Torquay, both Mumbai and Munich. \u00a0It covers a century and it goes round the world.<\/p>\n—<\/p>\n
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\n‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’ – Lucy Worsley, author of Jane Austen at Home<\/em><\/p>\n‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation \u2013 and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s ‘dirty little book’ has changed the world.’\u2014Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cShrewd, even-handed, and frequently amusing, Lady C<\/em> is a gleefully exhaustive survey of reactions to one of the world’s most argued-over narratives.\u201d\u2014Robert Crawford, author of Eliot After the Waste Land<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cGuy Cuthbertson\u2019s \u2018life story\u2019 of Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover<\/em> is an intricate and engaging history of one of the most famous books in English literature. From its creation to its many afterlives, Cuthbertson deftly weaves a colourful biography of Lawrence\u2019s novel whose cultural resonance lies not only in its plot, but in its legal and popular reception across the decades.\u201d\u2014Jane Potter, author of Wilfred Owen<\/em><\/p>\n‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/i>went off like a bomb in buttoned-up post-war Britain, and almost no other writer escaped the shrapnel. Guy Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny.\u00a0Lady C <\/i>absolutely<\/span>\u00a0is<\/i> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’ – Helen Lewis, author of The Genius Myth<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2018an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses\u2019 \u00a0(Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018an enjoyable piece of social history\u2019 (Blake Morrison, \u2018Book of the Day\u2019, The Guardian<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n‘Guy Cuthbertson’s deeply researched and highly readable account’ (Nicholas Murray, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n
Lady C – Articles<\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Libraries<\/a><\/h3>\nLady C – Bookshops<\/a><\/h3>\n—<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n*<\/h4>\n
Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/span><\/em>(336 Pages<\/span>, 155 \u00d7 234 mm<\/span>, 16 b-w illus.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Lucy Worsley<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation\u2014and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s “dirty little book” has changed the world.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Cal Flyn<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny. Lady C<\/em> absolutely is<\/em> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Helen Lewis<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses’ \u00a0(<\/strong>Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a>; <\/strong>\u2018Book of the Day’ and ‘our selection of this year\u2019s hottest holiday reads\u2019 (The Guardian<\/em>); <\/a><\/strong>‘witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (<\/strong>Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a>; ‘deeply researched and highly readable’ (Nicholas Murray, TLS<\/i><\/a>); ‘Book of the Week’ (The Week UK<\/em><\/a>)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n*<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover, tracing its life over the last century<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nD. H. Lawrence\u2019s <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of the twentieth century. Originally considered obscene and unpublishable in numerous countries, its scandalous story of class divide and the English countryside is infamous. But, since the 1920s, we have repeatedly re-created <\/em>Lady Chatterley, from film and TV to music and tourism.<\/em><\/p>\nGuy Cuthbertson tells the colourful story of the novel\u2019s journey through the last hundred years. He examines how the book has been read, adapted, and reimagined across the globe, from the United States to Japan, and explores the 1960 \u201cChatterley trial\u201d\u2014a key moment in the struggle for freedom of expression. It might have been burnt and derided, laughed at and defaced, but Lawrence\u2019s novel has crept into all walks of life. Whether the book, or its influence, be good or bad, we live in a world that <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover helped to create.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
Lady C<\/em> is a book of many different people, from Fanny Hill to Benny Hill to Churchill, from Bowie to Bowra, from Powell to MacDowell, from Bean to Heaney. \u00a0It also includes many places, both New York and Newport Pagnell, both Tokyo and Torquay, both Mumbai and Munich. \u00a0It covers a century and it goes round the world.<\/p>\n—<\/p>\n
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\n‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’ – Lucy Worsley, author of Jane Austen at Home<\/em><\/p>\n‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation \u2013 and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s ‘dirty little book’ has changed the world.’\u2014Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cShrewd, even-handed, and frequently amusing, Lady C<\/em> is a gleefully exhaustive survey of reactions to one of the world’s most argued-over narratives.\u201d\u2014Robert Crawford, author of Eliot After the Waste Land<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cGuy Cuthbertson\u2019s \u2018life story\u2019 of Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover<\/em> is an intricate and engaging history of one of the most famous books in English literature. From its creation to its many afterlives, Cuthbertson deftly weaves a colourful biography of Lawrence\u2019s novel whose cultural resonance lies not only in its plot, but in its legal and popular reception across the decades.\u201d\u2014Jane Potter, author of Wilfred Owen<\/em><\/p>\n‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/i>went off like a bomb in buttoned-up post-war Britain, and almost no other writer escaped the shrapnel. Guy Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny.\u00a0Lady C <\/i>absolutely<\/span>\u00a0is<\/i> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’ – Helen Lewis, author of The Genius Myth<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2018an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses\u2019 \u00a0(Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018an enjoyable piece of social history\u2019 (Blake Morrison, \u2018Book of the Day\u2019, The Guardian<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n‘Guy Cuthbertson’s deeply researched and highly readable account’ (Nicholas Murray, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n
Lady C – Bookshops<\/a><\/h3>\n—<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\n*<\/h4>\n
Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/span><\/em>(336 Pages<\/span>, 155 \u00d7 234 mm<\/span>, 16 b-w illus.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Lucy Worsley<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation\u2014and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s “dirty little book” has changed the world.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Cal Flyn<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny. Lady C<\/em> absolutely is<\/em> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’<\/strong><\/div>\n\u2014Helen Lewis<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses’ \u00a0(<\/strong>Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a>; <\/strong>\u2018Book of the Day’ and ‘our selection of this year\u2019s hottest holiday reads\u2019 (The Guardian<\/em>); <\/a><\/strong>‘witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (<\/strong>Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a>; ‘deeply researched and highly readable’ (Nicholas Murray, TLS<\/i><\/a>); ‘Book of the Week’ (The Week UK<\/em><\/a>)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n*<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover, tracing its life over the last century<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nD. H. Lawrence\u2019s <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of the twentieth century. Originally considered obscene and unpublishable in numerous countries, its scandalous story of class divide and the English countryside is infamous. But, since the 1920s, we have repeatedly re-created <\/em>Lady Chatterley, from film and TV to music and tourism.<\/em><\/p>\nGuy Cuthbertson tells the colourful story of the novel\u2019s journey through the last hundred years. He examines how the book has been read, adapted, and reimagined across the globe, from the United States to Japan, and explores the 1960 \u201cChatterley trial\u201d\u2014a key moment in the struggle for freedom of expression. It might have been burnt and derided, laughed at and defaced, but Lawrence\u2019s novel has crept into all walks of life. Whether the book, or its influence, be good or bad, we live in a world that <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover helped to create.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
Lady C<\/em> is a book of many different people, from Fanny Hill to Benny Hill to Churchill, from Bowie to Bowra, from Powell to MacDowell, from Bean to Heaney. \u00a0It also includes many places, both New York and Newport Pagnell, both Tokyo and Torquay, both Mumbai and Munich. \u00a0It covers a century and it goes round the world.<\/p>\n—<\/p>\n
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\n‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’ – Lucy Worsley, author of Jane Austen at Home<\/em><\/p>\n‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation \u2013 and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s ‘dirty little book’ has changed the world.’\u2014Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cShrewd, even-handed, and frequently amusing, Lady C<\/em> is a gleefully exhaustive survey of reactions to one of the world’s most argued-over narratives.\u201d\u2014Robert Crawford, author of Eliot After the Waste Land<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cGuy Cuthbertson\u2019s \u2018life story\u2019 of Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover<\/em> is an intricate and engaging history of one of the most famous books in English literature. From its creation to its many afterlives, Cuthbertson deftly weaves a colourful biography of Lawrence\u2019s novel whose cultural resonance lies not only in its plot, but in its legal and popular reception across the decades.\u201d\u2014Jane Potter, author of Wilfred Owen<\/em><\/p>\n‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/i>went off like a bomb in buttoned-up post-war Britain, and almost no other writer escaped the shrapnel. Guy Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny.\u00a0Lady C <\/i>absolutely<\/span>\u00a0is<\/i> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’ – Helen Lewis, author of The Genius Myth<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2018an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses\u2019 \u00a0(Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018an enjoyable piece of social history\u2019 (Blake Morrison, \u2018Book of the Day\u2019, The Guardian<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n‘Guy Cuthbertson’s deeply researched and highly readable account’ (Nicholas Murray, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n
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A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover, tracing its life over the last century<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n D. H. Lawrence\u2019s <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of the twentieth century. Originally considered obscene and unpublishable in numerous countries, its scandalous story of class divide and the English countryside is infamous. But, since the 1920s, we have repeatedly re-created <\/em>Lady Chatterley, from film and TV to music and tourism.<\/em><\/p>\n Guy Cuthbertson tells the colourful story of the novel\u2019s journey through the last hundred years. He examines how the book has been read, adapted, and reimagined across the globe, from the United States to Japan, and explores the 1960 \u201cChatterley trial\u201d\u2014a key moment in the struggle for freedom of expression. It might have been burnt and derided, laughed at and defaced, but Lawrence\u2019s novel has crept into all walks of life. Whether the book, or its influence, be good or bad, we live in a world that <\/em>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover helped to create.<\/em><\/p>\n Lady C<\/em> is a book of many different people, from Fanny Hill to Benny Hill to Churchill, from Bowie to Bowra, from Powell to MacDowell, from Bean to Heaney. \u00a0It also includes many places, both New York and Newport Pagnell, both Tokyo and Torquay, both Mumbai and Munich. \u00a0It covers a century and it goes round the world.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‘Seriously entertaining even on the serious subject of censorship, this is a very clever look at the life of a book. Disgustingly good.’ – Lucy Worsley, author of Jane Austen at Home<\/em><\/p>\n ‘Erudite, informative and told with humour. I loved this account of the explosive arrival and embattled aftermath of a literary sensation \u2013 and of the response from an outwardly prudish, inwardly prurient public. Lawrence’s ‘dirty little book’ has changed the world.’\u2014Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cShrewd, even-handed, and frequently amusing, Lady C<\/em> is a gleefully exhaustive survey of reactions to one of the world’s most argued-over narratives.\u201d\u2014Robert Crawford, author of Eliot After the Waste Land<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cGuy Cuthbertson\u2019s \u2018life story\u2019 of Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover<\/em> is an intricate and engaging history of one of the most famous books in English literature. From its creation to its many afterlives, Cuthbertson deftly weaves a colourful biography of Lawrence\u2019s novel whose cultural resonance lies not only in its plot, but in its legal and popular reception across the decades.\u201d\u2014Jane Potter, author of Wilfred Owen<\/em><\/p>\n ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover <\/i>went off like a bomb in buttoned-up post-war Britain, and almost no other writer escaped the shrapnel. Guy Cuthbertson has achieved the near-impossible: a book of deep scholarship that’s also wryly funny.\u00a0Lady C <\/i>absolutely<\/span>\u00a0is<\/i> a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read. And everyone else, too.’ – Helen Lewis, author of The Genius Myth<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018an elegantly written cultural history, with splashes of literary criticism, that consistently informs and amuses\u2019 \u00a0(Tim Bouverie, Air Mail<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018an enjoyable piece of social history\u2019 (Blake Morrison, \u2018Book of the Day\u2019, The Guardian<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018witty, resourceful survey of Lady C\u2019s persistence\u2019 (Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Guy Cuthbertson’s deeply researched and highly readable account’ (Nicholas Murray, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
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