The 1960 Lady Chatterley trial legalized unexpurgated publishing in Britain

Evidence

When prosecution counsel invited the jury to consider whether this was a book they would wish their wives and servants to read, the game was up: the defence of the book was now a defence of modern Britain. Penguin was acquitted and within a month had an edition of 200,000 copies on the street. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 878

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the broader tension between private reading desires and public censorship traced throughout the chapter.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 878