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TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050717
Author:Gary Dexter

D. H. LAWRENCE wrote three full-length versions of his "pariah'' book between 1925 and 1928, all of which appeared in separate editions. They are, in order of composition, The First Lady Chatterley (title chosen by Frieda Lawrence, published 1944), John Thomas and Lady Jane (published 1972) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (the final, but first-published version, of 1928). In 1928 Lawrence wrote to Aldous Huxley: "Today... we took the MS of the novel to the printer: great moment. Juliette [Huxley] who read the MS and was very cross, morally so, suggested rather savagely that I should call it: John ...

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