140-595: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure —popularly known as Fanny Hill —is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel". It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. The book exemplifies
280-529: A Massachusetts court outlawed Fanny Hill . The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel. Holmes appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court . He claimed that the judge, relying only on the prosecution's description, had not even seen the book. The state Supreme Court was not swayed. The Chief Justice wrote that Holmes was "a scandalous and evil disposed person" who had contrived to "debauch and corrupt"
420-570: A Telegraph journalists' reunion at the Garrick and was seen to leave the club with Moore the same evening. In June 2023, The Guardian and other newspapers reported that, following a breakdown in discussions relating to a financial dispute, Lloyds Bank was planning to take control of the companies owning the Telegraph titles and the Spectator and sell them off. Representatives of
560-565: A "hub and spoke" layout for the newsroom to produce content for print and online editions. In October 2006, with its relocation to Victoria, the company was renamed the Telegraph Media Group, repositioning itself as a multimedia company. On 2 September 2008, the Daily Telegraph was printed with colour on each page for the first time when it left Westferry for Newsprinters at Broxbourne , Hertfordshire, another arm of
700-489: A 12th-century collection of Indian erotic works, is a lesser known one. The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation , a 16th-century Arabic work by Sheikh Nefzaoui , is also well-known and is often reprinted and translated. There is anecdotal evidence that, as late as the mid-20th century, sex therapists and other physicians prescribed erotic literature as treatment for erectile dysfunction. The ancient Chinese versions of
840-434: A Woman Of Pleasure" to manifest corruption and subversion of youth, and other good citizens ... " None of the story's scenes have been exempt from illustration. Illustrations of this novel vary from the first homosexual experience to the flagellation scene. Although editions of the book have frequently featured illustrations, many have been of poor quality. An exception to this is the set of mezzotints , probably designed by
980-430: A certain lewd and indecent book, containing very lewd and obscene pictures or engravings". Sellers of the novel such as Peter Holmes were imprisoned and charged that they "did utter, publish and deliver to one [name]; a certain lewd, wicked, scandalous, infamous and obscene print, on paper, was contained in a certain printed book then and there uttered, [2] published and delivered by him said Peter Holmes intitled "Memoirs of
1120-502: A circulation of 270,000 in 1856, and 240,000 in 1863. It had a circulation of 1,393,094 in 1968, and 1,358,875 in 1978. It had a circulation of 1,439,000 in 1980, and 1,235,000 in 1984. It had a circulation of 1,133,173 in 1988. The paper had a circulation of 363,183 in December 2018, not including bulk sales. It descended further until it withdrew from newspaper circulation audits in 2020. The bulk of its readership has moved online;
1260-455: A common-law offence being committed – for example, on the report of a plain-clothes policeman who had successfully purchased the material – the court could issue a warrant for the premises to be searched and the material seized. The proprietor then would be called upon to attend court and give reason why the material should not be destroyed. Critically, the Act did not define "obscene", leaving this to
1400-406: A few hours before intercourse will help delay orgasm or enhance non-ejaculatory pleasure. The Universal Tao system was developed by Mantak Chia to teach Taoist meditative and exercise techniques to balance the body and increase and refine one's vital energy, or qi . Front and back channel, the back channel is where the perineum is located between anus and scrotum moving up the tailbone to the crown,
1540-568: A former MP and minister who resigned after it was found that he had breached advocacy rules to lobby ministers for fees. A plan to overhaul the Commons standard and spare Paterson from being suspended and a possible recall petition that follows was leaked to the newspaper and it was "approvingly" splashed across the paper's front page. Boris Johnson flew back from the COP 26 summit in Glasgow to attend
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#17327942907231680-610: A letter sent to Hussain's lawyers accompanying the text of their published apology, the newspaper's lawyers wrote: "The article was published by our client following receipt of information in good faith from the Scout Association and the Henry Jackson Society ; nevertheless our client now accepts that the article (using that expression to refer to both print and online versions) is defamatory of your client and will apologise to him for publishing it." In 2016,
1820-440: A literary review, La Conque in 1891, where he proceeded to publish Astarte —an early collection of erotic verse already marked by his distinctive elegance and refinement of style. He followed up in 1894 with another erotic collection in 143 prose poems— Songs of Bilitis (Les Chansons de Bilitis) , this time with strong lesbian themes. Although D. H. Lawrence could be regarded as a writer of love poems, he usually dealt in
1960-592: A long poem in heroic couplets , purporting to be a reprint of an 18th-century poem by George Colman the Younger , on the theme of flagellation. Italian Una Chi distinguished herself among other publications for coldly analytical prose and for the crudeness of the stories. Prostitution was the focus of much of the earliest erotic works. The term pornography is derived from the Greek pornographos meaning "writer about prostitutes", originally denoting descriptions of
2100-493: A mini-ice age by 2030. Climate change denying journalist James Delingpole was first to use " Climategate " on his Telegraph blog for a manufactured controversy where emails were leaked from climate scientists ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit and misleadingly presented to give the appearance that the climate scientists were engaged in fraud. In 2014, The Telegraph was one of several media titles to give evidence to
2240-499: A nature calculated to shock the common feelings of decency in any well-regulated mind." The House of Commons successfully amended it so as not to apply to Scotland, on the grounds that Scottish common law was sufficiently stringent. The Act provided for the seizure and destruction of any material deemed to be obscene, and held for sale or distribution, following information being laid before a "court of summary jurisdiction" ( magistrates' court ). The Act required that following evidence of
2380-462: A plea bargain, pleaded guilty and was convicted. Five years later, the conviction was vacated . Importing books and texts across national borders can sometimes be subject to more stringent laws than in the nations concerned. Customs officers are often permitted to seize even merely 'indecent' works that would be perfectly legal to sell and possess once one is inside the nations concerned. Canada has been implicated in such border seizures. Although
2520-539: A public interest intervention notice on 30 November, preventing the group from taking over without further scrutiny from the media regulator Ofcom over potential breaches of media standards. Conservative MPs also called on Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden to use the National Security and Investment Act 2021 to investigate the Emirati-backed bid. Chairman Andrew Neil threatened to quit if
2660-708: A relatively limited readership. This was the original method of circulation for the Sonnets of William Shakespeare , who also wrote the erotic poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece . The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight ( Arabic : الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر) is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nefzawi, also known simply as "Nefzawi". The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive and gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health , and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives lists of names for
2800-429: A sexual encounter with her own maid, and goes on to seduce Will (the young footman of Mr H—) as an act of revenge. She is discovered by Mr H— as she is having a sexual encounter with Will. After being abandoned by Mr H—, Fanny becomes a prostitute for wealthy clients in a pleasure-house run by Mrs Cole. This marks the end of the first letter. The second letter begins with a rumination on the tedium of writing about sex and
2940-678: A sign in the window of the Magic Shop in Tottenham Court Road in London, run by Ralph Gold. An officer went to the shop, bought a copy, and delivered it to Bow Street magistrate Sir Robert Blundell, who issued a search warrant. At the same time, two officers from the Metropolitan Police 's Obscene Publications Branch visited Mayflower Books in Vauxhall Bridge Road to determine whether copies of
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#17327942907233080-417: A sudden cold. Soon after, she has a chance encounter with Charles, who has returned as a poor man to England after being shipwrecked. Fanny offers her fortune to Charles unconditionally, but he insists on marrying her. The novel's developed characters include Charles, Mrs Jones (Fanny's landlady), Mrs Cole, Will, Mr H— and Mr Norbert. The prose includes long sentences with many subordinate clauses. Its morality
3220-501: A war correspondent of The Daily Telegraph , named Harry Blount—who is depicted as an exceptionally dedicated, resourceful and brave journalist, taking great personal risks to follow closely the ongoing war and bring accurate news of it to The Telegraph ' s readership, ahead of competing papers. In 1908, The Daily Telegraph printed an article in the form of an interview with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany that damaged Anglo-German relations and added to international tensions in
3360-551: A week for the paper since late October 2005 and is a regular contributor to the news podcast. In November 2005, the first regular podcast service by a newspaper in the UK was launched. Just before Christmas 2005, it was announced that The Telegraph titles would be moving from Canada Place in Canary Wharf , to new offices at Victoria Plaza at 111 Buckingham Palace Road near Victoria Station in central London. The new office features
3500-487: A young attractive couple, and participates in a lesbian encounter with Phoebe, a bisexual prostitute. A customer, Charles, induces Fanny to escape. She loses her virginity to Charles and becomes his lover. Charles is sent away by deception to the South Seas, and Fanny is driven by desperation and poverty to become the kept woman of a rich merchant named Mr H—. After enjoying a brief period of stability, she sees Mr H— have
3640-446: Is The Merry Muses of Caledonia (the title is not by Burns), a collection of bawdy lyrics that were popular in the music halls of Scotland as late as the 20th century. One of the 19th century's foremost poets— Algernon Charles Swinburne —devoted much of his considerable talent to erotic verse, producing, inter alia, twelve eclogues on flagellation titled The Flogging Block "by Rufus Rodworthy, annotated by Barebum Birchingly"; more
3780-503: Is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858. In 2013, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph , which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. It is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party . It was politically moderately liberal before
3920-633: Is conventional for the time, in that it denounces sodomy, frowns upon vice and approves of only heterosexual unions based upon mutual love. The plot was described as 'operatic' by John Hollander , who said that "the book's language and its protagonist's character are its greatest virtues". Literary critic Felicity A. Nussbaum describes the girls in Mrs Cole's brothel as " 'a little troop of love' who provide compliments, caresses, and congratulation to their fellow whores' erotic achievements". According to literary critic Thomas Holmes, Fanny and Mrs Cole see
4060-483: Is never punished for them. In fact, Fanny is ultimately able to achieve her own happy ending when she is able to find Charles again, marrying him and living in a life of wealth. This can be viewed in sharp contrast to a work like Pamela , where sexual acts are avoided for the sake of maintaining virtue. Meanwhile, within Fanny Hill , normally deplorable acts can be conducted with little to no consequence. Because of
4200-418: Is not a total fix to forget her emotions. Andrea Haslanger argues in her dissertation how the use of first-person narrative in the 18th century "undermines, rather than secures, the individual" in classic epistolary novels like Roxana by Daniel Defoe , Evelina by Fanny Burney , Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and specifically Fanny Hill . Haslanger claims that "the paradox of pornographic narration
4340-476: Is still deemed illegal and is also prosecuted. The Daily Telegraph Defunct The Daily Telegraph , known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph , is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier . The Telegraph
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4480-474: Is that it mobilizes certain aspects of the first person (the description of intimate details) while eradicating others (the expression of disagreement or resistance)" (19). With this in mind, she raises the question of "whether 'I' denotes consciousness or body or both" (34). With sexual acts being viewed as taboo within 18th-century England, Fanny Hill strayed far away from the norm in comparison to other works of its time. A large portion of books that focused on
4620-739: The Chicago Sun-Times , the Jerusalem Post and The Spectator . On 18 January 2004, Black was dismissed as chairman of the Hollinger International board over allegations of financial wrongdoing. Black was also sued by the company. Later that day, it was reported that the Barclay brothers had agreed to purchase Black's 78% interest in Hollinger Inc. for £ 245m, giving them a controlling interest in
4760-522: The Daily News and The Morning Post , to expand the size of the overall market. Levy appointed his son, Edward Levy-Lawson, Lord Burnham , and Thornton Leigh Hunt to edit the newspaper. Lord Burnham relaunched the paper as The Daily Telegraph , with the slogan "the largest, best, and cheapest newspaper in the world". Hunt laid out the newspaper's principles in a memorandum sent to Levy: "We should report all striking events in science, so told that
4900-563: The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph have been criticised by Guardian columnist Owen Jones for publishing and authoring articles which espouse Cultural Marxism, an antisemitic conspiracy theory . In 2018, Allister Heath , the editor of the Sunday Telegraph wrote that "Cultural Marxism is running rampant." Assistant comment editor of the Daily Telegraph Sherelle Jacobs also used
5040-471: The Daily Telegraph , Peter Oborne , resigned. Oborne accused the paper of a "form of fraud on its readers" for its coverage of the bank HSBC in relation to a Swiss tax-dodging scandal that was widely covered by other news media. He alleged that editorial decisions about news content had been heavily influenced by the advertising arm of the newspaper because of commercial interests. Jay Rosen at New York University stated that Oborne's resignation statement
5180-824: The Financial Times reported that the Barclay Brothers were about to put the Telegraph Media Group up for sale. The Financial Times also reported that the Daily Mail and General Trust (owner of the Daily Mail , The Mail on Sunday , Metro and Ireland on Sunday ) would be interested in buying. The Daily Telegraph supported Liz Truss in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election . In July 2023, it
5320-830: The Hebrew Bible , the Song of Songs , found in the last section of the Tanakh , celebrates sexual love, giving "the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy". Many erotic poems have survived from ancient Greece and Rome . The Greek poets Straton of Sardis and Sappho of Lesbos both wrote erotic lyric poems. The poet Archilochus wrote numerous satirical poems filled with obscene and erotic imagery. Erotic poems continued to be written in Hellenistic and Roman times by writers like Automedon ( The Professional and Demetrius
5460-595: The Hong Kong Free Press reported that The Daily Telegraph was receiving £750,000 annually to carry a supplement called 'China Watch' as part of a commercial deal with Chinese state-run newspaper China Daily . The Guardian reported in 2018 that the China Watch supplement was being carried by The Telegraph along with other newspapers of record such as The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal and Le Figaro . The Telegraph published
5600-480: The House of Commons Select Committee 'Communicating climate science'. The paper told MPs they believe climate change is happening and humans play a role in it. Editors told the committee, "we believe that the climate is changing, that the reason for that change includes human activity, but that human ingenuity and adaptability should not be ignored in favour of economically damaging prescriptions." In November 2023,
5740-526: The Independent Press Standards Organisation , ordered The Daily Telegraph to publish a correction to two "significantly misleading" claims in a comment article published by Toby Young . The July 2020 article "When we have herd immunity Boris will face a reckoning on this pointless and damaging lockdown," which spread COVID-19 misinformation that the common cold provided "natural immunity" to COVID-19 and that London
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5880-748: The Inside Linda Lovelace trial in 1976. However, in October 2008, a man was unsuccessfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act (the R v Walker trial) for posting fictional written material to the Internet allegedly describing the kidnap, rape and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud . The First Amendment to the United States Constitution gives protection to written fiction, although
6020-525: The Ishinpo text, which is a medical document that also included sections devoted to sexual hygiene and sexual manuals of the Tang and Han dynasties. Qigong manuals include warming a wet towel and covering penis for a few minutes, then rubbing one direction away from base of penis hundreds of times daily, similar to qigong. Squeezing sphincter while semi-erect or fully erect dozens of times daily, particularly
6160-692: The Murdoch company. The paper is also printed in Liverpool and Glasgow by Newsprinters. In May 2009, the daily and Sunday editions published details of MPs' expenses . This led to a number of high-profile resignations from both the ruling Labour administration and the Conservative opposition. In June 2014, The Telegraph was criticised by Private Eye for its policy of replacing experienced journalists and news managers with less-experienced staff and search engine optimisers . On 26 October 2019,
6300-516: The Roth standard for obscenity. The art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann recommended the work in a letter for "its delicate sensitivities and noble ideas" expressed in "an elevated Pindaric style". The original work was not illustrated, but many editions of this book have contained illustrations, often depicting the novel's sexual content. Distributors of the novel such as John Crosby were imprisoned for "exhibiting [not selling] to sundry persons
6440-472: The Telegraph called Oborne's statement an "astonishing and unfounded attack, full of inaccuracy and innuendo". Later that month, Telegraph editor Chris Evans invited journalists at the newspaper to contribute their thoughts on the issue. Press Gazette reported later in 2015 that Oborne had joined the Daily Mail tabloid newspaper and The Telegraph had "issued new guidelines over the way editorial and commercial staff work together". In January 2017,
6580-419: The Telegraph , noting: "On 10 May last year The Telegraph ran a long feature on Cunard's Queen Mary II liner on the news review page. This episode looked to many like a plug for an advertiser on a page normally dedicated to serious news analysis. I again checked and certainly Telegraph competitors did not view Cunard's liner as a major news story. Cunard is an important Telegraph advertiser." In response,
6720-695: The United Arab Emirates and owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan . The bid would see the firm take over The Telegraph , while allowing the Barclay family to repay a debt of £1.2 billion to Lloyds Bank. Conservative MPs raised national security concerns, and pushed the government to investigate the bid, as the United Arab Emirates had a poor reputation for freedom of speech . Culture secretary Lucy Frazer issued
6860-496: The penis and vulva , and has a section on the interpretation of dreams. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement. In the 17th century, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–80) was notorious for obscene verses, many of which were published posthumously in compendiums of poetry by him and other " Restoration rakes " such as Sir Charles Sedley , Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset , and George Etherege . Though many of
7000-783: The "house newspaper" of the Conservatives in the future. In an interview with The Guardian , he said: "Where the government are right we shall support them." The editorial board endorsed the Conservative Party in the 2005 general election. During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum , the paper supported the Better Together 'No' Campaign. Alex Salmond , the former leader of the SNP, called The Telegraph "extreme" on Question Time in September 2015. In
7140-433: The 'scandalous stages' of her earlier life, which she proceeds to do with 'stark naked truth' as her governing principle. The first letter begins with a short account of Fanny's impoverished childhood in a Lancashire village. At age 14, she loses her parents to smallpox , arrives in London to look for domestic work, and gets lured into a brothel. She sees a sexual encounter between an ugly older couple and another between
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#17327942907237280-737: The 17th century; Pills to Purge Melancholy (1698–1720); the Roxburghe Ballads ; Bishop Percy's Folio ; The Musical Miscellany ; National Ballad and Song: Merry Songs and Ballads Prior to the Year AD 1800 (1895–97) edited by J. S. Farmer; the three volume Poetica Erotica (1921) and its more obscene supplement the Immortalia (1927) both edited by T. R. Smith. French collections include Les Muses gaillardes (1606) Le Cabinet satyrique (1618) and La Parnasse des poetes satyriques (1622). A famous collection of four erotic poems,
7420-431: The 18th century, directories of prostitutes and their services, such as Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies (1757–1795), provided both entertainment and instruction. In the 19th century, the sensational journalism of W. T. Stead 's The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon (1885) about the procuring of underage girls into the brothels of Victorian London provided a stimulus for the erotic imagination. Stead's account
7560-414: The Barclay family have described the reports as "irresponsible". By 20 October, a sale of the publications had been initiated after bankers seized control. Lloyds appointed receivers and started shopping the brands to bidders. By November, it was revealed that the bid had been agreed upon by RedBird IMI, a joint venture between RedBird Capital Partners and International Media Investments, a firm based in
7700-451: The Dutch madame Xaviera Hollander and The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl (2005) by Belle de Jour . In the 21st century, a new literary genre of student published journals at American universities was started. The following is a partial list of publications: Sex manuals are among the oldest forms of erotic literature. Three brief fragments of a sex manual written in
7840-639: The England football manager Sam Allardyce , and the Lockdown Files in 2023. The Daily Telegraph and Courier was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 to air a personal grievance against the future commander-in-chief of the British Army , Prince George, Duke of Cambridge . Joseph Moses Levy , the owner of The Sunday Times , agreed to print the newspaper, and the first edition
7980-469: The Fortunate ), Philodemus ( Charito ) and Marcus Argentarius . Notable Roman erotic poets included Catullus , Propertius , Tibullus , Ovid , Martial and Juvenal , and the anonymous Priapeia . Some later Latin authors such as Joannes Secundus also wrote erotic verse. Haft Peykar ( Persian : هفت پیکر ) also known as Bahramnameh ( بهرامنامه , The Book of Bahram ) is a romantic epic by
8120-581: The Lords voted in a new law, under which restrictions were imposed on foreign governments regarding the ownership of British newspapers and magazines, including only being allowed up to a 0.1 per cent stake. In April 2024, the UK government effectively banned RedBird IMI from taking over The Telegraph and The Spectator by introducing new laws which prevented foreign governments from owning British newspapers. RedBird also confirmed it would withdraw its takeover plans, saying they were "no longer feasible". It had
8260-401: The Obscene Publications Act of 1857, as well as 1959 legislation, outlawed the publication, retail and trafficking of certain types of writings and images regarded as pornographic, and would order the destruction of shop and warehouse stock meant for sale, the private possession of and viewing of pornography was not prosecuted in those times. In some nations, even purely textual erotic literature
8400-788: The Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, and Rex Leeper , the Foreign Office's Press Secretary. As a result, Gordon Lennox was monitored by MI5 . In 1939, The Telegraph published Clare Hollingworth 's scoop that Germany was to invade Poland . In November 1940, Fleet Street, with its close proximity to the river and docklands, was subjected to almost daily bombing raids by the Luftwaffe and The Telegraph started printing in Manchester at Kemsley House (now The Printworks entertainment venue), which
8540-630: The Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi written in 1197. This poem is a part of the Nizami's Khamsa . The original title Haft Peykar can be translated literally as "seven portraits" with the figurative meaning of "seven beauties." The poem is a masterpiece of erotic literature, but it is also a profoundly moralistic work. During the Renaissance period, many poems were not written for publication; instead, they were merely circulated in manuscript form among
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#17327942907238680-522: The Suppression of Vice . The first such law was the Comstock Act, (ch. 258 17 Stat. 598 enacted March 3, 1873) which made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail. Twenty-four states passed similar prohibitions on materials distributed within the states. This question of whether a book had literary merit eventually prompted a change in
8820-434: The Telegraph Media Group had a higher number of upheld complaints than any other UK newspaper by its regulator IPSO . Most of these findings pertained to inaccuracy, as with other UK newspapers. In October 2017, a number of major western news organisations whose coverage had irked Beijing were excluded from Xi Jinping 's speech event launching a new politburo. However, the Daily Telegraph had been granted an invitation to
8960-456: The Telegraph Media Group reported a subscription number of 1,035,710 for December 2023, composed of 117,586 for its print edition, 688,012 for its digital version and 230,112 for other subscriptions. The Daily Telegraph supported Whig, and moderate liberal ideas, before the late 1870s. The Daily Telegraph is politically conservative and has endorsed the Conservative Party at every UK general election since 1945. The personal links between
9100-469: The artist George Morland and engraved by his friend John Raphael Smith that accompanied one edition. The novel consists of two long letters (which appear as volumes I and II of the original edition) written by Frances 'Fanny' Hill, a rich Englishwoman in her middle age, who leads a life of contentment with her loving husband Charles and their children, to an unnamed acquaintance identified only as 'Madam.' Fanny has been prevailed upon by 'Madam' to recount
9240-478: The authorities. Prosecutions of erotica later in the 18th century were rare and were most often taken because of the admixture of seditious and blasphemous material with the porn. It was the Obscene Publications Act 1857 which made the sale of obscene material a statutory offense, giving the courts power to seize and destroy offending material. The origins of the act itself were in a trial for
9380-403: The book were kept on the premises. They interviewed Powell, the publisher, and took away the five copies there. The police returned to the Magic Shop and seized 171 copies of the book, and in December, Gold was summonsed under section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . By then, Mayflower had distributed 82,000 copies of the book, but it was Gold who was being tried, although Mayflower covered
9520-509: The book's notoriety (and public domain status), numerous adaptations have been produced. Some of them are: Erotic novel Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar feelings in readers. This contrasts erotica , which focuses more specifically on sexual feelings. Other common elements are satire and social criticism . Much erotic literature features erotic art , illustrating
9660-426: The build-up to World War I . In 1928, the son of Baron Burnham, Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 2nd Baron Burnham , sold the paper to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose , in partnership with his brother Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley and Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe . In 1937, the newspaper absorbed The Morning Post , which traditionally espoused a conservative position and sold predominantly amongst
9800-475: The case of a mock-sex manual produced in the early sixteenth century by Pietro Aretino . It was in response to the clerical censorship of the nude engravings of the Roman artists Marcantonio Raimondi . This was released in cheap wood, with a corresponding sonnet serving as the voice of the characters. Erotic fiction is a genre of fiction that portrays sex or sexual themes, generally in a more literary way than
9940-473: The character of Pamela is able to resist sexual temptation, thus maintaining her virtue and being rewarded in the end with a prosperous life. However, Fanny Hill was widely considered to be the first work of its time to focus on the idea of sexual deviance being an act of pleasure, rather than something that was simply shameful. This can be seen through Fanny's character partaking in acts that would normally be viewed as deplorable by society's standards, but then
10080-486: The citizens of Massachusetts and "to raise and create in their minds inordinate and lustful desires". In 1963, after the 1960 court decision in R v Penguin Books Ltd that allowed the continuing publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover , Gareth Powell 's Mayflower Books published an uncensored paperback version of Fanny Hill . The police became aware of the 1963 edition a few days before publication, having spotted
10220-489: The company saw the launch of sister paper The Sunday Telegraph in 1960. Canadian businessman Conrad Black , through companies controlled by him, bought the Telegraph Group in 1986. Black, through his holding company Ravelston Corporation , owned 78% of Hollinger Inc. which in turn owned 30% of Hollinger International . Hollinger International in turn owned the Telegraph Group and other publications such as
10360-568: The company, and to buy out the minority shareholders later. However, a lawsuit was filed by the Hollinger International board to try to block Black from selling his shares in Hollinger Inc. until an investigation into his dealings was completed. Black filed a countersuit but, eventually, United States judge Leo Strine sided with the Hollinger International board and blocked Black from selling his Hollinger Inc. shares to
10500-502: The difficulty of driving a middle course between vulgar language and "mincing metaphors and affected circumlocutions". Fanny then describes her adventures in the house of Mrs Cole, which include a public orgy, an elaborately orchestrated bogus sale of her "virginity" to a rich dupe called Mr Norbert, and a sado-masochistic session with a man involving mutual flagellation with birch-rods. These are interspersed with narratives which do not involve Fanny directly; for instance, three other girls in
10640-404: The distinction of being the only works of erotic literature ever read out loud and in their entirety in the House of Lords —before being declared obscene and blasphemous by that body and the supposed author, Wilkes, declared an outlaw . Robert Burns worked to collect and preserve Scottish folk songs, sometimes revising, expanding, and adapting them. One of the better known of these collections
10780-598: The downing of the passenger jet Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 . These had featured on its website as part of a commercial deal, but were later removed. As of 2014, the paper was paid £900,000 a year to include the supplement Russia Beyond the Headlines , a publication sponsored by the Rossiyskaya Gazeta , the Russian government's official newspaper. In February 2015, the chief political commentator of
10920-715: The ecclesiastical courts. After the Reformation the jurisdiction of these courts declined in favour of the Crown which licensed every printed book. Prosecutions of books for their erotic content alone were rare and works which attacked the church or state gave much more concern to the authorities than erotica or ' obscene libel ' as it was then known. For instance the Licensing Act 1662 was aimed generally at "heretical, seditious, schismatical or offensive books of pamphlets" rather than just erotica per se. Even this Licensing Act
11060-484: The effect of any one of its items is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it. After this piece of legislation questions of the literary merit of the work in question were allowed to be put before the judge and jury as in the Lady Chatterley trial. The publishers of
11200-486: The event. In April 2019, Business Insider reported The Telegraph had partnered with Facebook to publish articles "downplaying 'technofears' and praising the company". The paper published premature obituaries for Cockie Hoogterp, the second wife of Baron Blixen , Dave Swarbrick in 1999, and Dorothy Southworth Ritter , the widow of Tex Ritter and mother of John Ritter , in August 2001. Editors for both
11340-409: The fiction seen in pornographic magazines . It sometimes includes elements of satire or social criticism . These type of fiction have frequently been banned by the government or religious authorities. Erotic or pornographic works have often been prosecuted, censored and destroyed by the authorities on grounds of obscenity. In Medieval England, erotic or pornographic publications were the concern of
11480-566: The first stage of a major redesign of the website took place, with a wider page layout and greater prominence for audio, video and journalist blogs. On 10 October 2005, The Daily Telegraph relaunched to incorporate a tabloid sports section and a new standalone business section. The Daily Mail ' s star columnist and political analyst Simon Heffer left that paper in October 2005 to rejoin The Daily Telegraph , where he has become associate editor. Heffer has written two columns
11620-450: The fourth century BC that is attributed to Philaenis of Samos have survived. Modern scholars generally regard it as a work of parody probably written by a man, and this was most likely Athenian sophist Polycrates . Other examples of the genre from the classical world include the lost works of Elephantis and Ovid 's Ars Amatoria . The Indian Kama Sutra is one of the world's best-known works of this type. The Ananga Ranga ,
11760-423: The front channel is moving down the front of your body down the midline. Breathing up the back channel and then breathing out from the front channel down to and from the abdomen moves chi. Many practices combined help chi to be transformed into spiritual energy or shen . Not all sex manuals were produced to arouse or inform readers about sexual acts. Some were created as a form of satire or social criticism, as in
11900-461: The grounds of obscenity . Because of this, much of the production of this type of material became clandestine . The oldest located love poem is Istanbul 2461 , an erotic monologue written by a female speaker directed to king Shu-Sin . In ancient Sumer, a whole cycle of poems revolved around the erotic lovemaking between the goddess Inanna and her consort Dumuzid the Shepherd . In
12040-583: The historical, social and economic themes underlying the novel. The novel was published in two installments, on 21 November 1748 and in February 1749, by Fenton Griffiths and his brother Ralph under the name "G. Fenton". There has been speculation that the novel was at least partly written by 1740, when Cleland was stationed in Bombay as an employee of the East India Company . Initially, there
12180-401: The homosexual act thus: "the act subverts not only the hierarchy of the male over the female, but also what they consider nature's law regarding the role of intercourse and procreation". There are numerous scholars who claim that Fanny in her name refers to a woman's vulva , or that Hill refers to the mons pubis , mound of Venus. However, this interpretation lacks corroborating evidence:
12320-538: The house (Emily, Louisa and Harriett) describe their own losses of virginity, and the nymphomaniac Louisa seduces the immensely endowed but imbecilic "good-natured Dick". Fanny also describes anal intercourse between two older boys (removed from several later editions). Eventually Fanny retires from prostitution and becomes the lover of a rich and worldly-wise man of 60 (described by Fanny as a "rational pleasurist"). This phase of Fanny's life brings about her intellectual development, and leaves her wealthy when her lover dies of
12460-426: The idea of sex were written in the form of conduct novels: books that would focus on teaching women the proper ways to behave and live their lives in as virtuous a manner as possible. These novels encouraged women to stay away from sexual deviance, for if they were to remain virtuous then they would ultimately be rewarded. One example of this is Samuel Richardson 's conduct novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded , in which
12600-474: The intelligent public can understand what has happened and can see its bearing on our daily life and our future. The same principle should apply to all other events—to fashion, to new inventions, to new methods of conducting business". In 1876, Jules Verne published his novel Michael Strogoff , whose plot takes place during a fictional uprising and war in Siberia . Verne included among the book's characters
12740-506: The journalist and climate activist group DeSmog published its judgments for coverage of environmental topics in 171 of The Telegraph 's opinion pieces from April to October 2023. DeSmog stated that of these 171 pieces, 85 per cent were categorized as "anti-green", defined as "attacking climate policy, questioning climate science and ridiculing environmental groups." The Daily Telegraph , in particular its columnist and former editor Charles Moore , were staunch supporters of Owen Paterson ,
12880-481: The late 1870s. The Telegraph has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth , described as "the scoop of the century", the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal – which led to a number of high-profile political resignations and for which it was named 2009 British Newspaper of the Year – its 2016 undercover investigation on
13020-403: The latter book were found not guilty by the court on the grounds of the literary merit of the book. In later prosecutions of literary erotica under the provisions of the act, however, even purely pornographic works with no apparent literary merit escaped destruction by the authorities. Purely textual pornographic texts, with no hint of libel , ceased to be brought to trial following the collapse of
13160-420: The law in both America and the UK. In the United Kingdom the Obscene Publications Act 1959 provided for the protection of "literature" but conversely increased the penalties against pure "pornography." The law defined obscenity and separated it from serious works of art. The new definition read: [A]n article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or (where the article comprises two or more distinct items)
13300-472: The legal costs. The trial took place in February 1964. The defence argued that Fanny Hill was a historical source book and that it was a joyful celebration of normal non-perverted sex—bawdy rather than pornographic. The prosecution countered by stressing one atypical scene involving flagellation, and won. Mayflower elected not to appeal. Luxor Press published a 9/6 edition in January 1964, using text "exactly
13440-494: The legal presumption that it does not protect obscene literature has never been overcome. Instead, pornography has successfully been defined legally as non-obscene, or "obscene" been shown to be so vague a term as to be unenforceable. In 1998 Brian Dalton was charged with creation and possession of child pornography under an Ohio obscenity law. The stories were works of fiction concerning sexually abusing children which he wrote and kept, unpublished, in his private journal. He accepted
13580-538: The less romantic aspects of love such as sexual frustration or the sex act itself. Ezra Pound , in his Literary Essays , complained of Lawrence's interest in his own "disagreeable sensations" but praised him for his "low-life narrative". This is a reference to Lawrence's dialect poems akin to the Scots poems of Robert Burns , in which he reproduced the language and concerns of the people of Nottinghamshire from his youth. He called one collection of poems Pansies partly for
13720-613: The lives and manners of prostitutes and their customers in Ancient Greece . According to Athenaeus in The Deipnosophists these constituted a considerable genre, with many lubricious treatises, stories and dramas on the subject. A surviving example of this genre is Lucian of Samosata 's Dialogues of the Courtesans . Accounts of prostitution have continued as a major part of the genre of erotic literature. In
13860-621: The original target of this law. In contrast to England, where actions against obscene literature were the preserve of the magistrates, such actions were the responsibility of the Postal Inspection Service in America. They were embodied in the federal and state Comstock laws and named after the postal officer and anti-obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock , who proved himself officious in the work of suppression both in his official capacity and through his New York Society for
14000-624: The paper's editors and the leadership of the Conservative Party , along with the paper's generally right-wing stance and influence over Conservative activists, have led the paper commonly to be referred to, especially in Private Eye , as the Torygraph . When the Barclay brothers purchased the Telegraph Group for around £665 million in late June 2004, Sir David Barclay suggested that The Daily Telegraph might no longer be
14140-479: The poems attributed to Rochester were actually by other authors, his reputation as a libertine was such that his name was used as a selling point by publishers of collections of erotic verse for centuries after. One poem definitely by him was "A Ramble in St. James's Park ", in which the protagonist's quest for healthy exercise in the park uncovers instead "Bugg'ries, Rapes and Incest" on ground polluted by debauchery from
14280-603: The point where in 1970 an uncensored version of Fanny Hill was again published in Britain. In 1963, Putnam published the book in the United States under the title John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure . This edition led to the arrest of New York City bookstore owner Irwin Weisfeld and clerk John Downs as part of an anti-obscenity campaign orchestrated by several major political figures. Weisfeld's conviction
14420-413: The price climbed above £600m, as did Daily Mail and General Trust plc a few months later on 17 June. In November 2004, The Telegraph celebrated the tenth anniversary of its website, Electronic Telegraph , now renamed www.telegraph.co.uk . The Electronic Telegraph launched in 1995 with The Daily Telegraph Guide to the Internet by writer Sue Schofield for an annual charge of £180.00. On 8 May 2006,
14560-432: The recruitment of code-breakers for Bletchley Park . The ability to solve The Telegraph ' s crossword in under 12 minutes was considered to be a recruitment test. The newspaper was asked to organise a crossword competition, after which each of the successful participants was contacted and asked if they would be prepared to undertake "a particular type of work as a contribution to the war effort". The competition itself
14700-599: The retired officer class. Originally William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, bought The Morning Post with the intention of publishing it alongside The Daily Telegraph , but poor sales of the former led him to merge the two. For some years, the paper was retitled The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post before it reverted to just The Daily Telegraph . In the late 1930s, Victor Gordon Lennox , The Telegraph ' s diplomatic editor, published an anti- appeasement private newspaper The Whitehall Letter that received much of its information from leaks from Sir Robert Vansittart ,
14840-528: The sale of pornography presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Campbell , at the same time as a debate in the House of Lords over a bill aiming to restrict the sale of poisons. Campbell was taken by the analogy between the two situations, famously referring to the London pornography trade as "a sale of poison more deadly than prussic acid, strychnine or arsenic", and proposed a bill to restrict
14980-476: The sale of pornography; giving statutory powers of destruction would allow for a much more effective degree of prosecution. The bill was controversial at the time, receiving strong opposition from both Houses of Parliament . It was passed on the assurance by the Lord Chief Justice that it was "intended to apply exclusively to works written for the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of
15120-448: The sale was approved, saying "You cannot have a major mainstream newspaper group owned by an undemocratic government or dictatorship where no one has a vote." Fraser Nelson , editor of The Spectator , which would be included in the sale, also opposed the move, saying, "the very reason why a foreign government would want to buy a sensitive asset is the very reason why a national government should be wary of selling them." In March 2024,
15260-427: The same as that employed for the de-luxe edition" in 1963. The back cover features praise from The Daily Telegraph and from the author and critic Marghanita Laski . It went through many reprints in the first couple of years. The Mayflower case highlighted the growing disconnect between the obscenity laws and the permissive society that was developing in late 1960s Britain, and was instrumental in shifting views to
15400-504: The sex manual include the texts that contain the Taoist sexual practices . These include books that show illustrations of the ideal sexual behavior because sex in this religion is not considered taboo but a manifestation of the concept of the yin and yang , wherein the male and female engage in an act of "joining of energy" or "joining of essences". The belief is that proper sexual practice is key to achieving good health. The manuals included
15540-537: The shame and regret that she feels for leading a life of adultery, and replaces this shame with the pleasure of sexual encounters with men and women. Even though these feelings may have been replaced or forgotten, she still reflects on her past: "...and since I was now bent over the bar, I thought by plunging over head and ears into the stream I was hurried away by, to drown all sense of shame or reflection". Having little time to think about how she feels about her transition, she masks her thoughts with sexual pleasure, yet this
15680-461: The sight of two young men engaging in anal intercourse , was an interpolation made for these pirated editions, but the scene is present in the first edition (p. xxiii). In the 19th century, copies of the book were sold underground in the UK, the US and elsewhere. In 1887, a French edition appeared with illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril . The book eventually made its way to the United States. In 1821,
15820-617: The simple ephemeral nature of the verse but also a pun on the French word panser , to dress or bandage a wound. "The Noble Englishman" and "Don't Look at Me" were removed from the official edition of Pansies on the grounds of obscenity; Lawrence felt wounded by this. From the age of 17, Gavin Ewart acquired a reputation for wit and accomplishment through such works as "Phallus in Wonderland" and "Poems and Songs", which appeared in 1939 and
15960-469: The stages. Fanny sees the phallus as both an object of terror and of delight. McCracken relates her changing view of the phallus to Burke's theory of the sublime and beautiful. Patricia Spacks discusses how Fanny has been previously deprived by her rural environment of what she can understand as real experience, and how she welcomes the whores' efforts to educate her. Since Fanny is so quickly catapulted into her new life, she has had little time to reflect on
16100-544: The subject of climate change as a subject of active scientific debate when there is a scientific consensus on climate change . It has published columns about the "conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth", described climate scientists as "white-coated prima donnas and narcissists," and claimed that "global warming causes about as much damage as benefits." In 2015, a Telegraph news article incorrectly claimed that scientists predicted
16240-520: The supplement once a month in print, and published it online at least until March 2020. In April 2020, The Telegraph removed China Watch from its website, along with another advertisement feature section by Chinese state-run media outlet People's Daily Online . The paper had run many pieces critical of China since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic . In January 2021, the British press regulator,
16380-455: The term " fanny " is first known to have been used to mean female genitalia in the 1830s, and no 18th-century dictionary defines "fanny" in this way. Later in the text when Fanny is with Louisa, they come across a boy nicknamed "Good-natured Dick" who is described as having some mental disability/handicap. Louisa brings the boy in anyway, as Dick's functioning physical state supersedes his poor mental one. This scene also leads into an issue within
16520-412: The term in 2019. The Daily Telegraph also published an anonymous civil servant who stated: "There is a strong presence of Anglophobia, combined with cultural Marxism that runs through the civil service." In January 2019, the paper published an article written by Camilla Tominey titled "Police called in after Scout group run from mosque is linked to Islamic extremist and Holocaust denier" in which it
16660-414: The text of rape (for both Dick and Louisa) and how the possible label of rape is removed by resistance transitioning into pleasure. One scholar, David McCracken, writes about Fanny Hill as a bildungsroman . Her sexual development contains three life stages: innocence, experimentation, and experience. McCracken specifically addresses how Fanny's word selections on describing the phallus change throughout
16800-469: The text. Although cultural disapproval of erotic literature has always existed, its circulation was not seen as a major problem before the invention of printing, as the costs of producing individual manuscripts limited distribution to a very small group of wealthy and literate readers. The invention of printing, in the 15th century, brought with it both a greater market and increasing restrictions, including censorship and legal restraints on publication on
16940-461: The time when "Ancient Pict began to Whore". This poem was being censored from collections of Rochester's poetry as late as 1953, though, in line with the subsequent general change in attitudes to sexuality, it was dramatised as a scene in the film The Libertine about his life, based on an existing play. English collections of erotic verse by various hands include the Drollery collections of
17080-527: The twins. On 7 March 2004, the twins announced that they were launching another bid, this time just for The Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister paper rather than all of Hollinger Inc. The then owner of the Daily Express , Richard Desmond , was also interested in purchasing the paper, selling his interest in several pornographic magazines to finance the initiative. Desmond withdrew in March 2004, when
17220-426: The use of euphemism . The text has no swearing or explicit scientific terms for body parts, but uses many literary devices to describe genitalia. For example, the vagina is sometimes referred to as "the nethermouth", which is also an example of psychological displacement . A critical edition by Peter Sabor includes a bibliography and explanatory notes. The collection Launching "Fanny Hill" contains several essays on
17360-432: The will of the courts. While the Act itself did not change, the scope of the work affected by it did. In 1868 Sir Alexander Cockburn , Campbell's successor as Lord Chief Justice, held in an appeal that the test of obscenity was "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." This
17500-550: Was "one of the most important things a journalist has written about journalism lately". Oborne cited other instances of advertising strategy influencing the content of articles, linking the refusal to take an editorial stance on the repression of democratic demonstrations in Hong Kong to the Telegraph 's support from China. Additionally, he said that favourable reviews of the Cunard cruise liner Queen Mary II appeared in
17640-526: Was "probably approaching herd immunity". The regulator said that a correction was appropriate rather than a more serious response due to the level of scientific uncertainty at the time the comment was published. At the time of the ruling, the Telegraph had removed the comment article but had not issued a correction. The Telegraph has published multiple columns and news articles which promote pseudoscientific views on climate change , and misleadingly cast
17780-605: Was allowed to lapse in 1695 and no attempt made to renew it. The first conviction for obscenity in England occurred in 1727, when Edmund Curll was fined for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offence of disturbing the King's peace . This set a legal precedent for other convictions. The publication of other books by Curll, however, considered seditious and blasphemous, such as The Memoirs of John Ker , apparently most offended
17920-409: Was announced that Lloyds Banking Group had appointed Mike McTighe as chairman of Press Acquisitions Limited and May Corporation Limited in order to spearhead the sale of The Telegraph and The Spectator . In July 2014, the Daily Telegraph was criticised for carrying links on its website to pro-Kremlin articles supplied by a Russian state-funded publication that downplayed any Russian involvement in
18060-460: Was clearly a major change from Campbell's opinion only ten years before – the test now being the effect on someone open to corruption who obtained a copy, not whether the material was intended to corrupt or offend. Cockburn's declaration remained in force for several decades, and most of the high profile seizures under the Act relied on this interpretation. Known as the Hicklin test no cognisance
18200-814: Was eventually overturned in state court and the New York ban of Fanny Hill lifted. The new edition was also banned for obscenity in Massachusetts, after a mother complained to the state's Obscene Literature Control Commission. The Massachusetts high court did rule Fanny Hill obscene and the publisher's challenge to the ban then went up to the Supreme Court. In a landmark decision in 1966, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Memoirs v. Massachusetts that Fanny Hill did not meet
18340-471: Was his first collection. The intelligence and casually flamboyant virtuosity with which he framed his often humorous commentaries on human behaviour made his work invariably entertaining and interesting. The irreverent eroticism for which his poetry is noted resulted in W H Smith 's banning of his "The Pleasures of the Flesh" (1966) from their shops. Canadian poet John Glassco wrote Squire Hardman (1967),
18480-535: Was no governmental reaction to the novel. However, in November 1749, a year after the first instalment was published, Cleland and Ralph Griffiths were arrested and charged with "corrupting the King's subjects". In court, Cleland renounced the novel and it was officially withdrawn. As the book became popular, pirate editions appeared. It was once believed that the scene near the end, in which Fanny reacts with disgust at
18620-473: Was published anonymously in The Whippingham Papers ( c. 1888 ). Another notorious anonymous 19th-century poem on the same subject is The Rodiad , ascribed (seemingly falsely and in jest ) to George Colman the Younger . John Camden Hotten even wrote a pornographic comic opera, Lady Bumtickler's Revels , on the theme of flagellation in 1872. Pierre Louÿs helped found
18760-461: Was published in England in 1763, called An Essay on Woman . This included the title piece, an obscene parody of Alexander Pope 's " An Essay on Man "; "Veni Creator: or, The Maid's Prayer", which is original; the "Universal Prayer", an obscene parody of Pope's poem of the same name, and "The Dying Lover to his Prick", which parodies "A Dying Christian to his Soul" by Pope. These poems have been attributed to John Wilkes and/or Thomas Potter and receive
18900-435: Was published on 29 June 1855. The paper cost 2 d and was four pages long. Nevertheless, the first edition stressed the quality and independence of its articles and journalists: "We shall be guided by a high tone of independent action." As the paper was not a success, Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill. Levy took over the newspaper, his aim being to produce a cheaper newspaper than his main competitors in London,
19040-645: Was reported that the police were investigating Ahammed Hussain, the Leader of the Scout Group at the Lewisham Islamic Centre, because he had links to extremist Muslim groups that promoted terrorism and antisemitism. In January 2020, the paper issued an official apology and accepted that the article contained many falsehoods, and that Hussain had never supported or promoted terrorism, or been antisemitic. The paper paid Hussain damages and costs. In
19180-555: Was run by Camrose's brother Kemsley. Manchester quite often printed the entire run of The Telegraph when its Fleet Street offices were under threat. The name Kemsley House was changed to Thomson House in 1959. In 1986, printing of Northern editions of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph moved to Trafford Park and in 2008 to Newsprinters at Knowsley, Liverpool. During the Second World War , The Daily Telegraph covertly helped in
19320-400: Was taken of the literary merit of a book or on the extent of the offending text within the book in question. The widened scope of the original legislation led to the subsequent notorious targeting of now acknowledged classics of world literature by such authors as Zola , James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence plus medical textbooks by such as Havelock Ellis rather than the blatant erotica which was
19460-834: Was widely translated and the revelation of "padded rooms for the purpose of stifling the cries of the tortured victims of lust and brutality" and the symbolic figure of "The Minotaur of London" confirmed European observers worst imaginings about "Le Sadisme anglais" and inspired erotic writers to write of similar scenes set in London or involving sadistic English gentlemen. Such writers include D'Annunzio in Il Piacere , Paul-Jean Toulet in Monsieur de Paur (1898), Octave Mirbeau in Jardin des Supplices (1899) and Jean Lorrain in Monsieur de Phocas (1901). Well-known recent works in this genre are The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971) by
19600-506: Was won by F. H. W. Hawes of Dagenham who finished the crossword in less than eight minutes. Both the Camrose (Berry) and Burnham (Levy-Lawson) families remained involved in management until Conrad Black took control in 1986. On the death of his father in 1954, Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose assumed the chairmanship of the Daily Telegraph with his brother Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell as his editor-in-chief. During this period,
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