Lady Chatterley's Lover
Characters in Lady Chatterley's Lover
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Constance Chatterley
Intellectual, socially progressive young wife of a paralysed baronet, who finds in an affair the physical and emotional life her marriage lacks.
Oliver Mellors
The Chatterley estate's gamekeeper, a reserved former army officer from a working-class background who becomes Connie's lover.
Supporting characters
Sir Clifford Chatterley
Connie's husband, a baronet paralysed in the war, who turns to writing and his mines and holds the lower classes in contempt.
Mrs. Bolton
Ivy Bolton, the middle-aged nurse hired to care for Clifford, who becomes his dependable companion and a conduit for village gossip.
Hilda Reid
Connie's older sister, who at first disapproves of Mellors because of his class but later supports her.
Michaelis (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
A successful Irish playwright who has a brief affair with Connie and proposes to her, though she finds him lacking real passion.
Tommy Dukes
A brigadier general and friend of Clifford who discusses sensuality at length but remains detached from it.
Sir Malcolm Reid
Connie and Hilda's father, a painter who warms to Mellors despite the difference in class.