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grinning_soul ([personal profile] grinning_soul) wrote2009-11-22 12:39 pm
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Think of the children! (1928 version)


Kill them before they read stuff: "I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel. Poison kills the body, but moral poison kills the soul."

James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express, on Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. The book was banned in Britain until 1949.

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