Lady Chatterley's Lover - Unabridged characters

Also known as Connie, Lady Chatterley

Appears from the start

A young woman raised in a cultivated, politically liberal household who marries Clifford Chatterley during the First World War. After his disabling injury, she lives with him at Wragby Hall and tries to meet the emotional and practical demands of a marriage increasingly governed by ideas rather than physical intimacy.

Also known as Sir Clifford Chatterley

Appears from the start

Connie's husband and the owner of Wragby Hall and its surrounding coal interests. A wartime injury has left him unable to walk and impotent. Proud of his family position and hungry for recognition as a writer, he depends on Connie while encouraging an emotionally intense but physically detached marriage.

Appears from the start

Connie's older sister, an independent woman who shares the unconventional education and early freedoms of their youth. She remains protective of Connie and is prepared to challenge the arrangements at Wragby when they damage her sister's health.

Appears from the start

Connie and Hilda's father, a successful Scottish artist with worldly views about love and marriage. He notices that life at Wragby is draining Connie and distrusts the bloodless intellectual atmosphere around Clifford.

First appears in chapter 3

A successful Irish playwright who visits Wragby and is drawn to Connie. Socially adept and ambitious, he offers her attention and physical intimacy, though his concern for reputation and advancement limits the connection.

First appears in chapter 4

One of Clifford's regular intellectual companions at Wragby. More skeptical and self-aware than much of the group, he recognizes the limits of talk and theory even while participating in their long discussions about society, sex, and the future.

Also known as The gamekeeper

First appears in chapter 5

The reserved gamekeeper on Clifford's estate, living alone near the woods after service in the army and an unsuccessful marriage. He moves between standard English and a Derbyshire dialect and keeps his distance from both Wragby's privileged visitors and the industrial village nearby.

First appears in chapter 7

A local widow hired as Clifford's nurse and attendant when Connie can no longer manage his constant needs alone. Competent, talkative, and attentive to status, she has known both hardship and the mining community and soon makes herself indispensable at Wragby.

First appears in chapter 9

A local woman Connie visits near the estate. Her warm domestic life and new baby give Connie a view of ordinary physical and family experience far removed from Wragby's sterile routines.

First appears in chapter 14

Mellors's estranged wife, from whom he has long lived apart. Their bitter history remains a legal and social obstacle to any new life he might try to establish.

First appears in chapter 14

An artist and old friend of Connie's whom she considers naming as the father of a hoped-for child. Because he belongs to her own social world, his involvement could provide a respectable explanation that Clifford might accept.