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Re: Yet another Sydney derailment

Subject: Re: Yet another Sydney derailment
From: "Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:41:57 +1100
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Geoff Lambert wrote in message <389b5de5.101346076@nntp.unsw.edu.au>...

>The offender was Frank Hardy for his book "Power without Glory", but
>it was 50 years ago.  The offence was to imply that Nellie Wren was an
>aldultress, via Hardy's depiction of "Nellie West"  Hardy was
>acquitted. That was then the first-ever prosecution in Australia and I
>think, still the only.  There may have been a recent case elsewhere-
>or perhaps I'm thinking of Oscar Wilde, another well-known offender-
>he was convicted and went to Brixton.

Oscar Wilde went to prison for having gay sex.

Dave

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