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Sir Clifford Chatterley
Ivy Bolton is a local widow in Tevershall, whom Clifford eventually hires as a nurse. Though Mrs. Bolton is bossy and authoritative with the colliers of her small town, with Clifford, she becomes quiet and subservient, a shift in behavior that pleases Clifford and confounds Connie. Mrs. Bolton resents the aristocracy for the way they hoard wealth and neglect the miners (including her dead husband) who make them rich, but she also wants to gain access to these aristocrats—to know “all that the gentry knew, all that made them upper class.” Thus, Mrs. Bolton bonds with Connie, silently supporting her affair with Mellors, but she also stands with Clifford, staying up late into the night to gamble with him. After Connie leaves Clifford, Mrs. Bolton becomes his lover of sorts (or perhaps a stand-in for something like a lover), a role she finds simultaneously thrilling and horrifying. Still, even as she becomes more intimate with Clifford, Mrs. Bolton never forgets “the touch” of her deceased husband Ted, bolstering the novel’s idea that truly passionate sex is rare but transformative.
Mrs. Ivy Bolton Quotes in Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Lady Chatterley’s Lover quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Ivy Bolton or refer to Mrs. Ivy Bolton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9
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[Mrs. Bolton] was coming bit by bit into possession of all that the gentry knew, all that made them upper class: apart from the money […].
She was thrilled by her contact with a man of the upper class, this tidal gentleman, this author who could write books and poems, and whose photograph appeared in the illustrated newspapers. She was thrilled to a weird passion. And his educating her roused in her passion of excitement and response much deeper than any love affair could have done. In truth the very fact that there could be no love affair left her free to thrill to her very marrow with this other passion, the peculiar passion of knowing, knowing as he knew.
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Chapter 19
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Clifford was not inwardly surprised to get this letter. Inwardly, he had known for a long time she was leaving him. But he had absolutely refused any outward admission of it. Therefore, outwardly, it came as the most terrible blow and shock to him. He had kept the surface of his confidence in her quite serene.
And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. Clifford was like a hysterical child.
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Mrs. Ivy Bolton Quotes in Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Lady Chatterley’s Lover quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Ivy Bolton or refer to Mrs. Ivy Bolton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 9
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[Mrs. Bolton] was coming bit by bit into possession of all that the gentry knew, all that made them upper class: apart from the money […].
She was thrilled by her contact with a man of the upper class, this tidal gentleman, this author who could write books and poems, and whose photograph appeared in the illustrated newspapers. She was thrilled to a weird passion. And his educating her roused in her passion of excitement and response much deeper than any love affair could have done. In truth the very fact that there could be no love affair left her free to thrill to her very marrow with this other passion, the peculiar passion of knowing, knowing as he knew.
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Chapter 19
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Clifford was not inwardly surprised to get this letter. Inwardly, he had known for a long time she was leaving him. But he had absolutely refused any outward admission of it. Therefore, outwardly, it came as the most terrible blow and shock to him. He had kept the surface of his confidence in her quite serene.
And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. Clifford was like a hysterical child.
