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S ’ Y E L R E T T A H C Y n D o LA i t a r e b i L
On the banned list for 30 years, D.H. Lawrence’s classic ‘dirty book’ went legit 60 years ago this month during a watershed obscenity trial at London’s Old Bailey. The Not Guilty verdict dragged ‘sexplicit’ literature out of the Victorian closet into the Permissive Age and Lady Chatterley’s Lover became required reading for every 1960s teenager behind the school bike shed. Belinda Beckett has the unexpurgated highlights.
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