Secret Garden II: Lady Chatterley's Lover as Palimpsest

Best Paper of the Conference Secret Garden II: Lady Chatterley's Lover as Palimpsest Just as palimpsest reveals an earlier script beneath a later one, so the image of a children's book may lie beneath an exigent and sophisticated modernist work. In this paper I shall argue that Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) is patterned on Burnett's The Secret Garden (1911). Despite the antithesis between the two tellers, the two tales show striking resemblances in the configuration of characters, in the personalities of the individual characters, and in the dominant themes. The paper will examine patterns common to the two works and speculate on the reasons for the congruence. Judith A. Plotz Department of English George Washington University Washington, D. C. 20052 57 ...