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
Harlee McBride Harlee McBride Harlee McBride (born November 20, 1948) is an American actress. She is best known for the role of Cynthia Chatterley in "Young Lady Chatterley" and "Young Lady Chatterley II". She married actor Richard Belzer in 1985. They met in Los Angeles in 1981, when she was 31 and divorced, with two daughters, Bree and Jessica. McBride, who had been seen in "Playboy" magazine four years earlier as part of that year's sex-in-cinema feature, in conjunction with "Young Lady Chatterley", was appearing in TV commercials for the auto maker Ford and acting in free theater, when she met Belzer