With the talk of the Upperclass looking up and down and being accused of being man eaters I was struck with remembrances about teaching Literature and specifically focusing on DH Laurence and Lady Chatterley's Lover and it could only be stuffed into the schoolbag in small dollops even in my day ...
The information is that the Book was privately published in Florence Italy but it was produced in England by Penguin Books around 1959 and that Penguin Books were prosecuted in England under the Obscene Publications Act and famous names were involved in this such as EM Forster and Norman St John Stevens to find at some point in time the charge of /not guilty/ .. however, during the period .. according to Wikipedia news and information .. 1959.Old Bailey London - Oct 20 2 November 1960 - Lady Chatterley's Lover was a banned book .. and it was banned in such countries as Australia ... India and censored in the USA and caused a huge furore ...
Philip Larkin the British Poet wrote the following lines around this scandal re Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Laurence .... the aristocratic Constance and the paralysed Clifford ........ and ... sex .... words of Philip Larkin as follows ...
Sexual Intercourse began in
Nineteen Sixty Three
Between the end of the Lady Chatterley (book)
And the Beatles first LP ...
or words to that effect ..
Happy reading .. nice work ....