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For selling Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a banned book by Mr. D. H. Lawrence, the English writer and painter, a bookseller at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was sent to prison for a month and fined £100. Copies of this book were ordered, by a London magistrate, to be destroyed last July.
The Mercury, 1930
Rowland rubbed a dilute solution of burnt umber over the surface of the canvas. The colours darkened and mellowed as he intended. The shadows about the river Styx, before which Psyche wept, deepened. He stood back and surveyed the result critically. Miss Martinelli was unarguably beautiful but he was glad she was gone. These finer finesses could be completed without a model and so he had been able to conclude their session early. Clyde was driving her home in the Mercedes. Rowland had done a
