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
Catherine D. Chatterley produced the Ottawa Protocol. Chatterley also teaches history at the University of Manitoba. Her undergraduate studies included European history and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at the University of Manitoba, European Intellectual History at Concordia University (Montreal), followed by a doctorate in Modern European and Jewish History, and German-Jewish Literature, which she completed at The University of Chicago. Syracuse University Press published her first book, "Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz", in their series on Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust, edited by Steven T. Katz. "Disenchantment" was named a 2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist