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R v Penguin Books Ltd (also known as The Lady Chatterley Trial), was the public prosecution in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 for the publication of D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
19 de oct. de 2020 · The legal action was a criminal prosecution for the planned publication of Penguin Book no. 1484, better known as Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence. The trial began 60 years ago today, on 20 October 1960, and barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC says “no other jury verdict in British history has had such a deep social impact”.
22 de oct. de 2010 · The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover. No other jury verdict has had such a profound social impact as the acquittal of Penguin Books in the Lady Chatterley trial. Fifty years on,...
2 de nov. de 2020 · The Lady Chatterley trial was a test of the act; in particular, would the defence protect creative works? In the courtroom, while the defence did not accept the book was obscene, their focus was...
The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class baronet husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, is paralysed from the waist down because of a Great War injury.
On 2 November 1960, after a six-day trial, British publishing house Penguin Books was found ‘not guilty’ under the Obscene Publications Act for its printing of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The landmark ruling had a significant impact on the publishing world, paving the way for greater freedom of the written word.
13 de ago. de 2022 · Exploring themes relating to class divide, industrialisation and the mind vs. body, the novel drew ire for its explicit sexual content and language, and for so brazenly depicting a lustful inter-class relationship. David Herbert Lawrence, author of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’.
