Act or statement that offends the morality of the period

A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.

A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

Obscene literature in law and practice / by Sir Edward Tindal Atkinson.

Who's obscene? / by Mary Ware Dennett.

To the pure ... : a study of obscenity and the censor / by Morris L. Ernst and William Seagle.

Darwin, literature and Victorian respectability / Gowan Dawson.

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Obscenity (Law)

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A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

Obscene literature in law and practice / by Sir Edward Tindal Atkinson.

Who's obscene? / by Mary Ware Dennett.

To the pure ... : a study of obscenity and the censor / by Morris L. Ernst and William Seagle.

Darwin, literature and Victorian respectability / Gowan Dawson.

Obscenity (Law)

Images from the collections

Images about Obscenity (Law)

Works from the collections

A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

Obscene literature in law and practice / by Sir Edward Tindal Atkinson.

Who's obscene? / by Mary Ware Dennett.

To the pure ... : a study of obscenity and the censor / by Morris L. Ernst and William Seagle.

Darwin, literature and Victorian respectability / Gowan Dawson.

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