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A hundred years ago this year, Lady Chatterley was born.

Soon appearing in D.H. Lawrence's highly controversial novel, Lady Chattley's lover, in 1928. Another very famous female literary

character was born at almost exactly the same time, Miss Marple, who made her debut in

1927.

Lawrence's novel became famous for its detailed descriptions of the passionate affair between Connie Chatterley and Mellas the Gamekeeper.

In many countries, including the US and the UK, it wasn't publishable in its unedited form

for at least another 30 years.

Miss Marple might not seem to have much in common with the adulterous young wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley, but are the Miss Marple stories as chaste as they seem? Or is sex to be found lurking within them? Thank you. Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton.

But today it's not me that's taking you back 100 years to these seismic literary moments of the 1920s.

My husband, Guy Cuthbertson, is in charge of this one. I'll let him

explain further. Agatha Christie was once a great admirer of D.H. Lawrence's work,

according to the autobiography that she wrote

towards the end of her life. All those years later, she recalled how Lawrence influenced her

first attempts to write stories. She was not alone in that. Lawrence was an influence on many

writers, especially when they were young. Born in 1885, only five years before

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