Culture and AdulteryAdultery, it is often assumed, was not a major concern of English culture during the Victorian age, and the apparent absence of adulteryindeed, of all explicit representations of sexualityin turn made censorship for obscene libel unnecessary. Very few writers, conventional wisdom has it, were bold enough to defy the powerful implicit constraints imposed upon literary production. If we find no English Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary, Barbara Leckie