Lady Constance Chatterley

Though Connie has the look of a country girl, she comes from a cultivated family and has received an aesthetic and somewhat unconventional education. As a younger woman she traveled Europe extensively and is well cultured and used to debating with the young intellectual men of her generation. She chose her first lover for his intellectual passion though she kept her distance from him sensually.

At the age of twenty-six, Connie becomes the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley, baron of Wragby Hall. Three years later, he returns from the war paralyzed from the waist down. Connie is driven to loneliness in her empty life with Clifford and comes to desire physical tenderness.

Connie is struggling to understand a world that is changing around her, filled with people who no longer seem to have any desire in life other than to spend money, people who speak empty...