The Three Marias New Portuguese Letters Author:Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho de Costa Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane — When this book was published in Portugal in the spring of 1972, its three authors were arrested by the authorities, on charges of "abuse of the freedom of the press" and "outrage to the public decency." The book was banned, and all copies of it were confiscated. The court proceedings against the "... more »Three Marias" (as they came to be known) began in October, 1972, under the provisions of a new law which made writers, publishers, printers and distributors legally responsible for the morality of works they put before the Portuguese public.« less