Week 6 - LadyChatterleyLover

Question 1

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Answer 1

• tells the story of Constance Reid, a woman who embarks on an affair with a gamekeeper, exploring her own sexual and emotional freedom in the process.
• The book is based on Molly Bloom’s speech in the last chapter of Ulysses
• D. H. Lawrence written 1928/9
• First published privately in Italy, rejected by British and American publishers on the grounds of obscenity, forced Lawrence to seek the help of Florentine bookseller Giuseppe Orioli

Question 2

What was said

Answer 2

“Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters–beacuse girls can read as well as boys–reading this book? Is it a book you would have lying around your house? Is it a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?”

Question 3

Obscenity

Answer 3

-In Canada in 1960, an appointed Ontario panel deemed the book was not obscene, though booksellers has been charged with obscenity in Quebec.
-A 1962 Supreme Court case ruled it was not obscene.

Question 4

literature Not is not Porn!

Answer 4

Slay Queen!