In the 1950s and 1960s, censorship on literary works began to disappear. In the UK there was the famous case concerning the republication of Lady Chatterley‘s lover by D.H. Lawrence, which led to the fall of literary censorship in that country.
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At the start and at the end of the show, I added the opening paragraphs from the classic 1749 novel Fanny Hill, the subject of the trial. Like Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the UK, the book had been republished and then stopped by the state of Massachusetts. While the novel was being discussed because of its sexually explicit content, this segment does not contain any passages of that nature.
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This segment comes from a public service site that distributes historical US supreme court audio. These audio segments from the real trial are distributed under a license that makes redistribution possible. This is only a short unedited segment to give you a feel of the debate at the time.
At the start and at the end of the show, I added the opening paragraphs from the classic 1749 novel Fanny Hill, the subject of the trial. Like Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the UK, the book had been republished and then stopped by the state of Massachusetts. While the novel was being discussed because of its sexually explicit content, this segment does not contain any passages of that nature.
I upload this under a creative commons license, and you are free to use it any way you like without attribution to Historyradio.org. But you must credit Oyez.org, as they state on their site.
Of course, it goes without saying that Historyradio.org has no affiliation whatsoever with Oyez.org.
Historyradio.org is a free live educational radio stream promoting history and literature and is available via radio apps 24/7.
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