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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 132, 5 June 1926, Page 13

Though the New Zealand Board of Censors has seen fit to ban the recentlypublished novtl, "The Butcher's Shop," the book has been favourably reviewed in England, and is said to be enjoying a. good sale there. The authoress, Mrs. Jean Devanny, is a resident of Garrett Street, Wellington, and she feels very hurt by the action of the board. To a, pressman who called on her the other day Mrs. Devanny freely expressed her views. "No reason," she said, "has been given mc as to the reason why the book is banned. It seems very strange, because the book has been so well received by the English reviewers, and I have had some beautiful letters from responsible people in the Old Country. Also, I have been invited, since my book appeared, to join the Authors' Association. It may be sail that the book is brutal, but intellectual people who have read it agree that for mc to draw a logical conclusion I coulil not have ended in any other way. What I have written is history down through the ages, and my theme wm. the subjugation of woman in all times. The title is chosen because the woman is butchered. It is a materialistic conception of in-j----tory. Only a scientific Socialist will fully comprehend my object.' J p"Devanny's second book is now in i printing pres* in England, n i itorv of the jazz age in Wei mgton S - Jβ wr.ting another on the subjt-o o t ►sex life of people. --» J' ' ™f',.,; Later she P«n»«» o ° I the eiuotionul lit: , 01 ridge meal, 1/b jiacKCL