Lady C – articles
Did Lady Chatterley’s Lover Inspire ‘Try a Little Tenderness’?
Few songs have enjoyed a longer or more varied afterlife than ‘Try a Little Tenderness’. From its origins in 1932 to celebrated recordings by Otis Redding and countless others, the song has become part of popular culture across generations. Yet beneath its familiar melody may lie an unexpected literary connection. Guy Cuthbertson, author of Lady C, investigates whether one of the twentieth century’s most controversial novels, D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, helped inspire the song’s most memorable lines.
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https://yalebooks.co.uk/did-lady-chatterleys-lover-inspire-try-a-little-tenderness/
‘”This Singular Extravaganza”: Powell and Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
The Anthony Powell Society Newsletter, 104 (Autumn 2026), pp. 24-7.
the Chatterley story ‘A Reference for Mellors’ could be seen as a form of afterword to both the trial and the novel itself. When it was published in Winter’s Tales in 1966, the editor, A.D. Maclean, hoped that ‘A Reference for Mellors’ will ‘be sure of a place in the sun whenever and wherever Lady Chatterley’s Lover is read’.
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https://www.anthonypowell.org/newsletters
Lady Chatterley vs Miss Marple
(podcast transcript)
Miss Marple first appeared at almost the exact same time as Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which was published privately in Italy in early 1928 – Miss Marple first appeared in print in December 1927 so it is nice to think of Marple stories and Lady Chatterley’s Lover arriving at the same time, a mail-order copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover lurking on the bedside table in 1928 as someone read a Marple story before bed, the two newly-minted women each a fresh and exciting discovery for the reader. We should bring those two great women, Connie and Jane, together – incidentally Jane is a name that Connie is also given in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, somewhat indecently.
https://www.shedunnitshow.com/ladychatterleyvsmissmarpletranscript/