D.H. Lawrence

BY: PROVOKR Staff

Lawrence’s novel about an aristocratic wife who has an affair with a lowly gamekeeper was so shocking in its detailed depiction of sex that even Lawrence’s contemporary—legendary poet T.S. Eliot—described the book as “sick.” Lawrence died of tuberculosis before the final, uncensored version of Lady Chatterley was freely disseminated to the public, but his work still reigns as one of the most controversial novels of all time.