The trial regarding obscenity charges against DHL
's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Regina v. Penguin Books Limited
, began at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Lady Chatterley’s Lover</span> Trial. Bodley Head.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin.
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Parkes, Adam. Modernism and the Theatre of Censorship. Oxford University Press.
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Reception
Nancy Mitford
Oswald Mosley
banned his sister-in-law from his home after this novel.
Knight, India. “Nit, Sick, and Bore”. London Review of Books, pp. 25-6.
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But she opposed its reissue after the war, on the grounds that [t]oo much has happened for jokes about Nazis to be regarded...
Reception
D. H. Lawrence
Penguin
released an edition of 200,000 copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover to the public; the novel by DHL
had been banned in England for more than thirty years.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis.
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Reception
Nancy Mitford
This enormously successful was also well reviewed. It was a Book Society
Choice, and earned NM
over £7,000 in the first six months, funding her move from England to Paris.
Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton.
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Fraser, Antonia. “A Most Superior Street”. Spectator.co.uk. Champagne for the brain.
After its success on...
Publishing
Sybille Bedford
It was dedicated to Allanah Harper
, and reprinted in a Penguin
edition the following year. Just as she had aimed to make her travel-book a novel, SB
said she had set out here to...
Publishing
Deborah Moggach
This began as the script for a series in eight episodes for ITV
, which in turn was sparked by DM
's plan (never carried through) to act as surrogate mother on behalf of an...
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
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When an illustrated edition did appear...
Publishing
Deborah Moggach
It came out in paperback from Penguin
in 1989. The protagonist first appeared in one of DM
's short stories and then insisted, as she says, on becoming the centre of a book.
Moggach, Deborah. “Autobiography”. Deborah Moggach: About Deborah.
Publishing
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD
received a Southern Arts translation bursary to fund her Tagore translation work.
She had visited the camp in March, commissioned by a US magazine for an article, and fascinated by these outsiders whose courage and perseverance was being rewarded with vilification. She then expanded her article into...
Publishing
Penelope Mortimer
PM
published a volume of her New Yorker stories as Saturday Lunch with the Brownings, which became a Penguin
paperback in 1977.
Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion.
This novel saw both a second New York edition (revised by CMS
) and a London edition in the year of its first publication. It was soon reprinted with some of Sedgwick's short fictions, and...
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