While researching the local libraries history I found an interesting snippet. Seems that while the rest of England was outraged by the Lolita book with laws about to be changed to protect us from such urm ‘pornography’. Our library had a copy for over 3 years which was available to all to borrow Suddenly explains a lot about how things just slip by our local council – its in our blood and a Tradition.
From the Time Life Archives:-
As the sounds of quarreling literati filled the air, Lolita continued to be freely available to the public at one place in Britain: the public library of the sedate spa town of Tunbridge Wells, which had simply ordered a copy three years ago from Paris. Nobody has tried to stop circulation of the Tunbridge Wells treasure, but there was not much of a queue for Lolita. Said the assistant librarian: “Demand has never been particularly high . . . Our top favorites at present are Doctor Zhivago, Monty’s memoirs and the life of King George VI.”
Read it in full here Lolita secret past in Tunbridge Wells Library.
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