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D. H. Lawrence (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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Lawrence’s battle with what he called “the censor- morons” began in 1915 with his publication of the novel The Rainbow. Amid a storm of accusations of indecency from critics, police seized more than a thousand copies from the publisher and the printer. When the case came to court in London, the prosecuting attorney, representing the police, called the book “a mass of obscenity of thought, idea, and action throughout.” The magistrate, Sir John Dickinson, ordered the novel destroyed. Lawrence was not alone in his belief that the real reason for...

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