![]() No one had foreseen that it would be banned. It didn't hurt that the attractive author, then 24, was seductively photographed for her press releases. There were a few mildly titillating passages, and the book was generally well received by critics, who saw parallels between the enduring Restoration wives and their wartime counterparts. The epic was a love letter to London, a bodice-ripping romp through plague and fire, taking in the society chatter and politics of the times. Her publishers hacked it down to a more manageable size, just under 1,000 pages, and it appeared in 1944 as Forever Amber. After years of research, she produced a sprawling fifth draft of a novel around 2,500 pages long. ![]() Winsor was a smart, energetic sports columnist who subsequently became fascinated by the Restoration period. In this case, censorship in America – something Kathleen Winsor (1919-2003) discovered the hard way. ![]() Any printed display of opinion is bound to raise questions, and then there's the matter of censorship. ![]()
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