DH Lawrence's steamiest story of all? His wife's
With no warning, one of Britain’s most brilliant young novelists suddenly burst into the room where his wife was chatting to friends. Then, in a frenzied attack, he began beating her head, face and breasts. For a few moments, it looked as if he might kill her. At that point, D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley had been married for just two years. ‘The most wonderful woman in all England’, he’d called her the day after they first met, convinced she’d transform his life. Many years later, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which Lawrence wrote in 1928, would become the subject of an infamous tri...