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Article History

Oliver Mellors, title character of the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover (privately published 1928) by English writer D.H. Lawrence. To Lawrence, Mellors symbolized raw animal passion, natural manhood, and untamed sexuality.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.