Banned Novel

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 16

Banned Novel

Customs Release A Work Condemned By Home Secretary HESSRS. RUBINSTEIN NASH AND CO„ solicitors for the Pegasus Press, of Paris, have been notified by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise that the consignment of some 300 copies of Miss Rad-cliffe-Hall’s much-discussed novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” which were detained at Dover, have been released. It is understood that the British Home Secretary has placed the mat-

ter in the hands of his legal advisers. When attention was first called to the novel the publishers in England, Messrs. Jonathan Cape, Ltd., said that copies would be sent to the Home Office and the Director of Public Prosecutions, and that they would stop issuing the book if requested to do so. Later (on August 24) they announced that at the Home Secretary’s request publication of the book would be stopped. The consignment detained by the Customs authorities at Dover were published in Paris by the Pegasus Press.