Did Lady Chatterley really exist

Answer 1

Lady Constance Chatterley is a fictional, not real character in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover by the English Author D. H. Lawrence. Because it contains explicit sexual scenes and "taboo" words it was not published in the UK until 1960, although Lawrence had written it in 1928. It was the subject of a famous legal trial where the publisher, Penguin Books were accused of publishing obscene material. This was seen as a test case for a recent change in law which allowed publication of such matter if it had "literary merit." Penguin were found not guilty and this led to much more explicit books, plays, films and television programmes being produced from then onwards.