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BumRushDaShow

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4. I remember the hullabaloo about when "Lady Chatterly's Lover" was "banned"

Reply to Vinca (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 08:11 AM

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And despite the courts ordering it to be made available by 1960, many libraries still refused to carry it a couple decades later. I did manage to find it at my college library.

It's now on Gutenberg.

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