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R v Penguin Books Ltd (also known as The Lady Chatterley Trial), was the public prosecution in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 for the publication of D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
19 de oct. de 2020 · The legal action was a criminal prosecution for the planned publication of Penguin Book no. 1484, better known as Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence. The trial began 60 years ago today, on 20 October 1960, and barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC says “ no other jury verdict in British history has had such a deep social impact ”.
2 de nov. de 2020 · The Lady Chatterley trial was a test of the act; in particular, would the defence protect creative works? In the courtroom, while the defence did not accept the book was obscene, their focus...
13 de ago. de 2022 · Originally published privately in Italy in 1928, Lady Chatterley’s Lover revolves around the relationship between upper-class Lady Constance Chatterley and her working class gamekeeper Oliver Mellors.
22 de oct. de 2010 · The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover. No other jury verdict has had such a profound social impact as the acquittal of Penguin Books in the Lady Chatterley trial. Fifty years on,...
The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class baronet husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, is paralysed from the waist down because of a Great War injury.
2 de dic. de 2022 · Lawrence’s scorching tale of sexual and social liberation, centered on a salacious affair between an upper-class woman and her husband’s gamekeeper, had been banned (and promptly smuggled)...
