![]() ![]() Sperisen had been a partner of Kennedy in the Black Vine Press between 1935-1937. Albert Sperisen identified the printer of this pirated edition as Lawton Kennedy from San Francisco. Printing in this way cost Lawrence the ability to retain an international copyright, paving the way for the publication of numerous “pirated” editions. The copies were then distributed to subscribers in England. In order to avoid the censors, Lawrence had Lady Chatterley’s Lover privately printed in Italy. Like many of Lawrence’s tales, Lady Chatterley’s Lover invokes binary themes of upper and lower classes, industrialization and nature, and the integral relationship between mind and body. The story follows a married woman named Constance ― or Lady Chatterly, as some call her ― as she navigates between feelings of emotional neglect and physical pleasure, between her paralyzed husband and her affair with the brute gamekeeper. Lawrence privately printed his eleventh novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. “Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.” ![]()
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