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The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 1960
The novel Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence, tells the story of a passionate affair between an aristocratic woman and her gamekeeper.
In the autumn of 1960 its publishers were tried for obscenity. The trial caused a media storm.
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