Last name, Lady

Last name, Lady
   Used to address the wife of a peer or a peeress in her own right. Lady Chatterley, one of the betterknown if not better-understood literary bearers of such a title, is asked in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H.Lawrence: ‘And how would you like to be Mrs Oliver Mellors, instead of Lady Chatterley.’ ‘I’d love it,’ replies Connie. Immediately prior to this Connie has remarked about her lover that ‘I’ve never called him by name, which is curious when you come to think of it’

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