British and Commonwealth
Author
|
Title
|
Category
|
Adrian Alington
|
The career of Julian Stanley Williams-
|
Novel (crime)-
|
Ruby Mildren Ayers
|
Spoilt Music
|
Novel (romance)
|
Charlotee Bronte
|
Villette
|
Novel
|
Hugh Brooke
|
Man made angry
|
Novel
|
John Galsworthy
|
Man of property
|
Novel
|
Philip Gibbs
|
Golden Years
|
Novel
|
Norman Giles (pseudo. N. McKeown)
|
Green Valley
|
Novel
|
Jan Gordon
|
Beans spilt in Spain
|
Novel
|
Bruce Graeme (pseudo, Graham Montague Jefferies
|
Unsolved
|
Novel (crime)
|
H. Cecil Hunt
|
Old Barty
|
Novel
|
F. Tennyson Jesse
|
Many latitudes
|
Novel (crime)
|
William Le Queux
|
The catspaw
|
Novel (mystery)
|
Eric Linklater
|
Juan in America
|
Novel
|
Compton Mackenzie (Scottish)
|
Carnival
|
Novel
|
Richard Oke (pseudo.Nigel Stansbury)
|
Frolic wind
|
Novel
|
Ernest Raymond
|
Family that was
|
Fiction (mystery)
|
Maurice Richardson
|
Strong man needed
|
Novel
|
Owen Rutter
|
White Rajah
|
Novel
|
Ethel Winifred Savi
|
Beauty Market
|
Novel
|
Ethel Winifred Savi
|
Vagrant Love
|
Novel
|
Eleanor Smith (Lady)
|
Famous novels of to-day
|
Novel
|
*Ben Strong
|
Shadow on the course
|
Novel (mystery)
|
Margaret Cole
|
Twelve studies of Soviet Russia
|
Fact
|
Emmeline Morrison
|
Three of a kind
|
Novel
|
*English publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
United States
Author
|
Title
|
Category
|
Mary Borden
|
Jane our stranger
|
Novel
|
Mary Borden
|
Jericho sands
|
Novel
|
Mary Borden
|
A Woman with white eyes
|
Novel
|
*Isabel C. Clarke
|
It happened in Rome
|
Novel
|
Isabel C. Clarke
|
Strangers of Rome
|
Novel
|
Margaret Horton Potter
|
Sister Anne resigns
|
Fiction
|
*Strangely Clarke was a Catholic novelist. http://www.catholicauthors.com/clarke.html (accessed 6 January 2010)
Source: TLS, The Library Association of Ireland, County meath Library Committee, List of books considered unsuitable for general circulation, MK MacNevin MA, County Librarian and Secretary, 13 November 1933; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books
Appendix 2.8
County Cork Library Committee
Full titles, authors’ names, nationality of authors on ‘Books objected to’, 1933
British and Commonwealth
Author
|
Title
|
Category
|
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
|
Sunset Song
|
Fiction-
|
Evelyn Everett-Green
|
Squib and his friends
|
Fiction (juvenile)
|
Edward Albert
|
Herrin’ Jennie
|
Fiction
|
Edward Mathers
|
Splendid Quest
|
Fiction
|
Hugh Cecil Asterley
|
Tale of two murders
|
Fiction (crime)
|
Henry Taylor Folkes Rhodes
|
Clues and crimes: the science of criminal investigation
|
Non-fiction
|
United States
Author
|
Title
|
Category
|
Martha Finley
|
Elsie’s friends at Woodburn-
|
Fiction (juvenile)
|
Tod Robbins
|
Who wants a green bottle?
|
Fiction (fantasy)
|
Val Lewton
|
The sword of the cosack
|
Fiction
|
Anon. Lizzie Heyburn, Nelson. No further information-English and American publishing house.
Source: TLS, The Library Association of Ireland, County Cork, Books objected to, 1933; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books
Appendix 2.9
Library Association of Ireland,
Advisory Committee on Book Selection
Nationality of authors of books on ‘Book List no. 3 (Rejections)’, 1934
British and Commonwealth
Author
|
Title
|
Category
|
Alice Marjorie Barnicot
|
The shadow of the woman
|
Novel
|
Thomas Owen Beechcroft
|
A young man in a hurry
|
Novel
|
*Francis Beeding
|
Mr Bobadil
|
Novel (crime)
|
Ursula Bloom
|
Pastoral
|
Novel (romantic)
|
Marjorie Bowen
|
The triumphant beast
|
Novel (gothic romance)
|
Gerald Bullet
|
Eden River
|
Novel
|
Francesca Claremont
|
Turn again ladies
|
Novel
|
**Brian Cottrell (pseudo.)
|
Sinister eden
|
Novel
|
***Agnes Cresswell
|
Brood O’ the Way
|
Novel (romance)
|
Guy Fletcher
|
The forest echoed fool
|
Novel
|
Hulbert Footner (Canadian)
|
Murder runs in the family
|
Fiction (detective)
|
Val Gielgud
|
Gravel hanger
|
Fiction
|
A.C.G. Hastings
|
Venom
|
Fiction
|
****A.P. Herbert
|
Holy Deadlock
|
Fiction
|
*****John Heygate
|
Talking Picture
|
Novel (semi-autobiographical)
|
Michael Home
|
In this valley
|
Fiction (crime)
|
Denis Kincaid
|
Cactus Land
|
Fiction
|
Henrietta Leslie (pseudo.)
Mrs Gladys Shütz
|
Mother of Five
|
Fiction
|
Philip Lindsay (Australian)
|
London bridge is falling
|
Fiction
|
Eric Linklater
|
The Revolution
|
Fiction
|
Alun Llewellyn
|
The Deacon
|
Fiction
|
Belloc Lowdnes
|
Another man’s wife
|
Fiction
|
Hugh Patrick McGaw
|
Rude Society
|
Fiction
|
Claude McKay
|
Banana Bottom
|
Fiction
|
H. Fletcher Moulton
|
The Unofficial Executor
|
Fiction
|
Daphne Muir
|
Very Heaven
|
Fiction
|
*****Ronald Nirden
|
Edwin Jeune, Gentleman
|
Fiction
|
Christine Grant Millar Orr (Scottish)
|
Tattered Feathers: a story of these dangerous days
|
Fiction
|
******Aishie Farrell
|
Infidelity
|
Fiction
|
Conrad H. Sayce (Australian)
|
Comboman
|
Fiction
|
Edward Shanks
|
Tom Tiddler’s Ground
|
Fiction
|
John Sorsky
|
The Bond
|
Fiction
|
Joan Temple
|
Duologne
|
Fiction
|
*******Trevelyan
|
As it happened in the beginning
|
?
|
Reginald Underwood
|
Bachelor’s Hall
|
Fiction
|
Eric Warman
|
No place for the young
|
Fiction
|
Evelyn Charles Vivian
|
Jewels Go Back
|
Fiction
|
********Spencer Watts
|
Mongrel
|
Novel
|
Geoffrey Willans
|
Shallow Dive
|
Novel
|
*Pseud of Hilary St. George Saunders and John Palmer
**English publisher, Harrap
***English publisher, Mills and Boon
**** Sir Alan Patrick Herbert was also an MP and law reformer. The theme of the work was on divorce.
****Sir John Heygate’s book was based on personal experiences in Weimar Germany
Barbara Golden, Slings and arrows, published by British publisher MacMillan in 1934.
*****English Publisher, Wright and Brown
******English publisher, Methuen and may have been an actress who toured with Noel Coward
*******English publisher, Martin Secker
********English publisher, Elkin Mathews and Marsot
Continental
Author
|
Title
|
Category
|
*Vicki Baum
(emigrated to US 1931)
|
Falling star
|
Novel (book banned in Germany also)
|
**Gleb Botkin
|
Her Wanton Majesty
|
Novel
|
A.I. Voinova
|
Semi-precious stones
|
Novel
|
Stefan Zweig
|
Kaleidoscope
|
Novel
|
*Best selling novelist with strong female characters. This book was described as a ‘teutonic melodrama’ based on Hollywood life. Time, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747014,00.html (accessed 4 January 2010)
**He set up his own church, Church of the Aphrodite in New York in the early 1930s.
United States
Author
|
Title
|
Category
|
Kay Boyle
|
Gentlemen, I address you privately
|
Novel
|
James M. Cain
|
The postman always rings twice
|
Novel (crime)
|
*George W. Cronyn
|
The fool of venus
|
Novel
|
**Means Davis
|
The hospital murder
|
Novel (crime)
|
***Ben Hecht
|
A Jew in love
|
Fiction
|
****Frederick Jackson
|
Pantoufle
|
Fiction
|
Alison Lide and Margaret
Johanson
|
Dark Possession
|
Fiction
|
Francis Van Wyck Mason
|
The Shanghai Bund Murders
|
Novel
|
Janet Curren woen (pseudo.)
Helen Gould Curren Owen
|
Late Flowering
|
Novel
|
Mary Robert Rinehart
|
The case of Elinor Norton
|
Novel (mystery)
|
Wallace Smith
|
The captain hates the sea
|
Novel
|
Mae West
|
She done him wrong
|
Novel
|
*Cronyn became associate director of the Federal Writers’ Project in the US
**American publisher, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas existed from 1932 to 1936
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/haasrm.pdf (accessed 5 January 2010)
***Hecht was a director, producer, play writer and novelist in Hollywood and anti-Nazi after 1933.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007040 (accessed 5 January 2010.)
No further information on P. Trail, The Angel, 1934, Grayson and Grayson.
No further information on Nora O’Beirne Dowling, Noon-day Devil, 1934, Lincoln William (English publisher), previously published The grinding of the mills in 1926 by the same author.
Drummond, Customs of Brettinore (St Paul Publishing Company, MN, USA) no further information on author
Source: TLS, The Library Association of Ireland, Book List No. 3 (Rejections), date stamped, 10 October 1934; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books
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