UK halts export of ‘Lady Chatterley’ copy from famous trial
May 13, 2019 | 8:31 AM
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LONDON — The British government has used its powers to preserve the nation’s cultural treasures to halt the export of a tattered paperback copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”
The copy of the once-scandalous book was used by the judge in the U.K. obscenity trial of Penguin Books, prosecuted in 1960 for publishing D.H. Lawrence’s novel about an affair between a wealthy woman and her husband’s gamekeeper.
A prosecution lawyer infamously asked in court whether it was “a book that you would … wish your wife or your servants to read?”
