ABSTRACT
D. H. Lawrence completed the third manuscript of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the hills of Tuscany, Italy, in 1928; readers had to wait until 1960 for distribution of the uncensored version. The third manuscript version, known as the "Orioli edition," quickly became one of the most controversial works of English fiction ever published and was banned as pornography in the United States and England. The ban on the distribution of the text version of Lady Chatterley and the refusal to grant a license for distribution of the film adaptation brought to the fore the controversy over cultural censorship in the United States. Lawyer Charles Rembar, the attorney revered for successfully altering a century of court-approved censorship, defended the publisher of Lady Chatterley's Lover. He argued that the artistic merit of the book outweighed any possible obscenity and should be protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
