On this day in 1929 D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in the United States. This was only one of a string of bannings from its first publication the year before until the landmark obscenity trials in 1959 (U.S.) and 1960 (Britain), but for Lawrence personally it may have been the most devastating. Lawrence expected, wanted and got a fuss over the book, and knew from the start that no mainstream publisher would touch it -- though he was disappointed that even Sylvia Beach, who had become Joyce's champion with her first edition of Ulysses a decade earlier, declined the opportunity to publish what she called a "sermon-on-the-mount of Venus ... FULL STORY »
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