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“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” on Trial | The New Yorker

Onward and Upward with the Arts November 19, 1960 Issue

The Lady at the Old Bailey By Mollie Panter-Downes

A man with a Penguin Books copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D. H. Lawrence in his pocket, soon after it was rst allowed to be published in an unexpurgated state in the U.K., 1960. Photograph by Durrant / Daily Express /Getty

am determined to stand by Lady C. and to send her out into the world as far as possible,” wrote D. H. Lawrence to his literary agent, L. E. Pollinger, from Switzerland in August, 1928. “I perfectly understand that C. B. and Rich are against her, thinking she will do me

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