# Lady Chatterley’s Lover — Character guide

> Key figures in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence.

- [Constance Chatterley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/constance_chatterley.md): Connie is the young Lady Chatterley, married to a baronet who came home from the war paralyzed, and settled into Wragby, a house where nothing warm is ever said. She is intelligent, sensual, and ashamed of her own curios
- [Clifford Chatterley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/clifford_chatterley.md): Clifford is the Chatterley of Wragby: a man of business and letters, coolly clever, who runs his collieries with an almost inhuman shrewdness and collects village gossip from Mrs. Bolton as raw material for his fiction. 
- [Oliver Mellors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/oliver_mellors.md): Mellors keeps the pheasants and lives alone in a cottage at the edge of the estate, speaking in Derbyshire dialect when it suits him and standard English when he wants to keep his distance. He is proud, touchy, and wound
- [Mrs. Bolton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/mrs_bolton.md): Mrs. Bolton came to Wragby to look after the paralyzed Clifford and has made herself indispensable, feeding him village gossip that he turns into fiction and taking a fierce pride in his success. She adores him and despi
- [Hilda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/hilda.md): Hilda is the practical, slightly censorious sister who drives Connie around in her car and has always dominated her. She has no patience for mysticism or mess, and she is genuinely protective of Connie even as she tries 
- [Michaelis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/michaelis.md): Michaelis has risen from nothing to London success, and the English drawing rooms that lionize him still treat him as a bounder and an eternal outsider. He is quick, wounded, and hungry for reassurance, and his brief aff
- [Sir Malcolm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/sir_malcolm.md): Sir Malcolm belongs to the cosmopolitan, cultured class that drifts through the novel's background — the world of artists, London flats, and opinions held lightly. He is affectionate toward Connie but fundamentally detac
- [Bertha Coutts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/bertha_coutts.md): Bertha comes from the same colliery world as Mellors, and he married her partly because she was common — unpretentious, physically direct, everything the 'pure' women of his earlier life were not. But the marriage curdle
- [Tommy Dukes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/tommy_dukes.md): A military friend of Clifford's who engages in intellectual discussions.
- [Duncan Forbes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/duncan_forbes.md): A Scottish artist and friend of the Chatterleys.
- [Charles May](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/charles_may.md): A friend of Clifford's, part of the intellectual circle.
- [Leslie Winter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/leslie_winter.md): An elderly landowner and neighbor of the Chatterleys.
- [Sir Geoffrey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/sir_geoffrey.md): A local landowner and acquaintance of Clifford.
- [Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/jane.md): A fox terrier belonging to Constance.
- [Miss Chatterley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lady_chatterley_s_lover_se/characters/miss_chatterley.md): Clifford's sister, mentioned briefly.

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