The Independent - London, April 13th, 1996
H ard cases make bad law. And, if Lady Chatterley's Lover is anything to go by, bad books make good law. Without the obscenity trial of 1960, the story of Connie Chatterley's passion for the gamekeeper Mellors would be just another minor DH Lawrence novel, wedged on academics' bookshelves between Aaron's Rod and The Trespasser, and probably unopened since 1963 (or whenever else it was that sexual intercourse began). The plot is paper thin, the language priapically bloated, and the characters little more than ciphers for the author's kooky quasi-religious beliefs about sex and class. The questi...
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