D. H. Lawrence and the Lady Chatterley Trial

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🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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D.H. Lawrence is best known for his work Lady Chatterley's Lover and the obscenity trial relating to the book's publication in the early 1960s. But Lawrence is in fact one of the most important British writers of the 20th century and there is much more to his work and story than Lady Chatterley. He was one of the first successful novelists from a working-class background, he wrote a number of other successful novels including The Rainbow and Women in Love as well as short stories, travelogues, poetry, history and even a school textbook. He was also a complicated and sometimes difficult character and a thorn in the side of the British writing establishment. To tell us about his all too short life Dan is joined by Frances Wilson who has recently written the first biography of Lawrence by a female author in thirty years.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History. We've recently had the Profumo Affair on
0:05.8	the pod, we had the anniversary of that, and we talked to a story about the Profumo Affair,
0:10.1	the Sex, Espionage and Lying scandal that brought down the British government, mostly sex
0:14.9	and lying to be fair. Now we've got another landmark event in a similar train from the
0:21.1	same period.
0:22.6	DH Lawrence and the Lady Chatelies lover, Trial.
0:26.9	DH Lawrence is one of the most important British novelists of the 20th century, and many
0:31.8	of these are the first novelists from a truly working-class background. His book, Lady
0:37.8	Chatelies Lover, Shots to Fame, after it was banned by the British government, which is
0:42.3	basically the best thing you can ever do if you want to boost sales. And there was even
0:47.4	a trial in which the publisher was taken to court for obscenity. It's one of the trials
0:52.2	shaped the cultural conversation, the cultural transformation of the 1960s. And so we thought
0:56.8	we'd get Frances Wilsonson, she has just written a biography of DH Lawrence. She's
1:00.8	his first female boggrefer in 30 years. And she tells me about this extraordinary man,
1:07.2	what a career he had, what a talent, what a tragic life he led. And we also talk about
1:13.6	that infamous book and the trial as well. You can head over to History Hit.TV, which
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1:38.7	the Denning report, which is the report written by Lord Denning on the Profumo affair. We've
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