Happy Birthday September 11

Author and poet D.H. Lawrence was born David Herbert Lawrence on September 11, 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. Today he is remembered for Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women in Love, and the obscenity trial which began on October 20, 1960 against Penguin Books for publishing Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The jury would side with Penguin, and within a year D.H. Lawrence’s novel would sell two million copies.

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