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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley was self published in 1928 in Italy. Penguin Books decided to bring out an unexforgated edition in paperback at a cheap price. They got themselves caught up with the obscenity laws and Penguin Books were taken to the old Bailey and tried for obscenity. No work of literature has ever been discussed more seriously in public than Lady Chatterley's lover during the trial. And Lawrence won and he became the sexual mascot of the 1960s.

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