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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Larry Ryan

What links Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Walkabout and William Hurt?

Poached game

Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell in Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lady Chatterley may be back, but she was banned at first … Photograph: courtesy of Netflix

If a gauge of success is the number of adaptations your work inspires, then DH Lawrence’s 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover scores high. The latest update is a Netflix film with Emma Corrin as the lady of the house having the sort of relationship with the estate’s gamekeeper Mellors (Jack O’Connell) that the expression “torrid affair” was invented for.

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