Lady Chatterley's Lover has been published in three versions. The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper class husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, has been paralysed from the waist down due to a Great War injury. In addition to Clifford's physical limitations, his emotional neglect of Constance forces distance between the couple. Her emotional frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights a major motif of the novel which is the unfair dominance of intellectuals over the working class. The novel
Chatterley railway station and Macclesfield still exists, the station site is no longer on the route as the line was diverted during the electrification of the West Coast main line as the Harecastle railway tunnels were not large enough to accommodate the overhead wires. Chatterley railway station Chatterley railway station is a former railway station in Staffordshire, England. Situated in the main North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) between and Macclesfield a station was opened in 1864 to serve the nearby town of Tunstall and was named Tunstall. In 1873 the NSR opened the loop Line which went much closer to Tunstall town centre. A