Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

"Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)", p. 409 - Tynan Right and Left (1967)