‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
Sir,—The otherwise excellent article ("At the cinema”) on the first English film based on D. H. Lawrence’s literary masterpiece, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” contains one glaring error in its reference to the “almost illiterate” gamekeeper of the title. Anyone who cares to refer to the first complete published text of this book issued in Great Britain in 1960 will find on the final pages of Chapter 10 the following musing observation made to herself by Ivy Bolton (Lord Chatterley’s housekeeper) as she observes the gamekeeper standing outside the house — “he’d been a clever boy, had a scholarship for Sheffield Grammar School, and learned French and things . . .” Moreover earlier in the novel we read of the gamekeeper’s several years in the Army as a full lieutenant — a position he had eamt from the ranks.— Yours, etc., ALLEN COBURN. May 6, 1982.
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