The second version of "Lady Chatterley's Lover". It is in many ways quite different from the first: both in the personalities of Parkin, the gamekeeper (Mellors) and Connie Chatterley, and in the development of the love story. There is far more social comment, direct or implied, and a very different ending.

John Thomas and Lady Jane is the second version of a story that was told in the infamous and controversial Lady Chatterley's Lover. John Thomas and Lady Jane are the pet names for the genitalia of the protagonists. The story concerns a young married woman, whose upper class husband has been paralyzed from the waist down due to an injury from war. In addition to physical limitations, his emotional neglect of his wife forces distance between the couple. Her emotional frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper.

Lady Jane Grey, is one of the most elusive and tragic characters in English history. In July 1553 the death of the childless Edward VI threw the Tudor dynasty into crisis. On Edward's instructions his cousin Jane Grey was proclaimed queen, only to be ousted 13 days later by his illegitimate half sister Mary and later beheaded. In this radical reassessment, Eric Ives rejects traditional portraits of Jane both as hapless victim of political intrigue or Protestant martyr. Instead he presents her as an accomplished young woman with a fierce personal integrity. The result is a compelling dissection by a master historian and storyteller of one of history’s most shocking injustices.

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