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Lady Chatterley’s Obscenity Trial

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Lady Chatterley

In 1959, Time Magazine ran a fresh review of the book which stated quote, but is it pornography? After 30 years, Lady Chatterley that much talked about English gentlewoman who had an affair with her husband's gamekeeper may strike the present day observers rather tame. The book was not an attempt to just slide it through print and hope nobody noticed. Penguin made an announcement that they would be publishing it months before they did so. They knew that this inexpensive paperback edition, it cost just three shillings and six pence.

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