AustLit

The following is a comprehensive list of the principal sources of information used in compiling the biographical and bibliographical entries for Banned in Australia.

PRIMARY SOURCES

National Archives of Australia

National Archives of Australia (NAA): Department of Trade and Customs; Series A425; 'Correspondence files, annual single number series'.

—. Series A3023; 'Decisions, with Comments, on Literature Forwarded by the Customs Department to the Commonwealth Book Censorship Board, 1933-1957'.

—. Series B13; 'General and classified correspondence, annual single number series'.

—. Series C3059/1; 'Literature and Miscellaneous records, classification on censorship and legislation'.

—. Series C4127; 'Library index cards, alphabetical series'.

—. Series C4130; 'Index Cards of publications under review, alphabetical series'.

—. Series C4226; 'Case files of imported publication titles reviewed for release and prohibition, annual single number series'.

—. Series C4480; 'National Literature Board of Review, Correspondence on Censorship and Legislation'.

—. Series P437; 'Correspondence files, annual single number series'.

NAA: Attorney-General's Department; Series A432; 'Correspondence files, annual single number series'.

—. Series A467; 'Special correspondence files'.

—. Series C4127/1; 'Library index cards, alphabetical series'.

—. Series C4128/1; Index cards of publications under review [Book Censorship Board, Literature Censorship Board].

NAA: Department of Posts and Telegraph; Series MP33/1; 'States' files - NSW, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania'.

—. Series MP341/1; 'General Correspondence'.

NAA: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Series 981/4; Item LEAGUE OBS 3. 'League of Nations. International Agreement for the Suppression of Obscene Publications - Central authority'.

NAA: Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Series A463/17; 'Correspondence files, annual single number series with occasional 'G' [General Representations] infix'.

NAA: Office of Film and Literature Classification; Series B3692; 'Files relating to the examination of imported literature, annual single number series, with 'CV' censor victoria prefix'.

National Library of Australia

A. H. Hewitt Papers, National Library of Australia (NLA) MS 6583, Box 3, 'Commonwealth Literature Censorship Board 1960-1967'.

Christina Stead Papers, NLA MS 4967.

L. H. Allen Papers, NLA MS 2113.

Robert Close Papers, NLA MS 7254.

Other Archival Sources

Robert Close Papers, Rare Books, Fisher Library, University of Sydney.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Buckridge, Patrick. 'Clearing a Space for Australian Literature 1940-1965.' Oxford Literary History of Australia. Ed. Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss, Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1998. 169-192.

Coleman, Peter. Obscenity, Blasphemy and Sedition: The Rise and Fall of Literary Censorship in Australia. [1962] Sydney: Duffy and Snellgrove, 2000.

Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries: A Study of the Conception of Literary Obscenity. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1962.

Darby, Robert. 'The Censor as Literary Critic.' Westerly 4 Dec. (1986): 30-39.

Day, David. Contraband and Controversy: The Customs History of Australia from 1901. Canberra: AGPS, 1996.

'"Decameron" Banned: New Edition Withheld.' Argus 29 May (1930): 9.

Douglas, Roger. 'Saving Australia From Sedition: Customs, The Attorney-General's Department and the Administration of Peacetime Censorship.' Federal Law Review 30.1 (2002): 135-175.

Heath, Deana. 'Creating the Moral Colonial Subject: Censorship in India and Australia, 1880-1939.' PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

Hansard House of Representatives Vol. 68 (1970): 3372-82.

Hansard House of Representatives Vo. 71 (1971): 439-69.

Karolides, Nicholas J., Margaret Bald and Dawn B. Sova. 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature. New York: Checkmark Books, 1999.

Lloyd, Brian, and George Gilbert, The Censorship and Public Morality: An Australian Conspectus. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930.

Munro, Craig. Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P. R. Stephensen. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1984.

Marcus, Stephen. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England. New York: Basic Books, 1974.

Munro, Craig, and Robyn Sheahan-Bright, eds. Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia, 1946-2005. St Lucia: U of Queensland P, 2006.

Murray-Smith, Stephen. 'Censorship and Literary Studies.' Dutton and Harris, 77-95.

— . 'Borstal Boy and the Censors.' Overland 15 July (1959): 42-43.

— . 'The Lady Chatterley Case.' Overland 19 Dec. (1960): 21-34.

Nile, Richard. 'Introduction.' Upsurge: A Novel. J. M. Harcourt. Nedlands WA: University of Western Australia Press, 1986. ix-xxix.

—. The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination. St Lucia: U of Queensland P, 2002.

Payne, Stephen. 'Aspects of Commonwealth Literary Censorship in Australia, 1929-1941.' MA Thesis, Australian National University, 1980.

Pollack, Michael. Sense and Censorship: Commentaries on Censorship Violence in Australia. Sydney: Reed Books, 1990.

Rose, Jonathan. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2001.

Siedlecky, Stefania, and Diana Wyndham. Populate and Perish: Australian Women's Fight for Birth Control. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1990.

Slide, Anthony. Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. New York: Hawthorn P, 2003.

Sullivan, Barbara. The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia Since 1945. Cambridge UK and Melbourne: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Travis, Alan. Bound and Gagged: A Secret History of Obscenity in Britain. London: Profile Books, 2000.

ONLINE SOURCES

Bookrags. http://www.bookrags.com/ (Accessed April-June 2008).

Datenschlag Bibliothek des Sadomasochismus. http://www.datenschlag.org/english/bisam/bisam_english.pdf (Accessed April 2008).

The Erotica Bibliophile. www.eroticabibliophile.com (Accessed February-June 2008).

Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection. Duke University http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/lesbianpulp (Accessed February-June 2008).

Macazine Data File. http://www.philsp.com/data/data275.html-24k (Accessed April 2008)

Pulp Fiction Magazines 1860-1900. Depaul University Libraries. http://www.lib.depaul.edu/speccoll/guides/pulps.htm (Accessed April 2008)

The Olympia Press. www.olympiapress.com. (Accessed April-May 2008)

Sexbiblio: Biibliography of the History of Western Sexuality. http://wirtges.univie.ac.at/sexbibl/ (Accessed April-May 2008).

Scissors and Paste Bibliographies. http://scissors-and-paste.net/ (Accessed February-June 2008).

AUTHOR ENTRY SOURCES

Altman, Dennis. Gore Vidal's America. Cambridge: Polity P, 2005.

D'Arch Smith, Timothy. R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press. London: Bertram Rota, 1983.

Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1978-

Eyles, Margaret Leonora. The Ram Escapes: The Story of a Victorian Childhood. London and New York: Peter Nevill, 1953.

Fox, Richard G. The Concept of Obscenity. Melbourne: The Law Book Company, 1967.

Fraser, John. 'Found Pages: The Remarkable Harold Ernest ('Darcy Glinto') Kelly, 1899-1969.' http://www.jottings.ca/john/kelly/contents.html.

Accessed July 2007.

Head, Dominic, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. 3^rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.

Mackinnon, Janice R., and Stephen R. Mackinnon. 'Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical.' The American Historical Review 94:2 April (1989): 534.

Munro, Craig. Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P. R. Stephensen. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 1984.

Nordan, Lewis. 'Foreword.' God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell. Athens, Georgia and London: U of Georgia P, 1995. v-ix.

O'Connor, Ulick. Brendan Behan. London: Coronet Books, 1972.

Pearson, Bill. 'The Banning of The Butcher Shop.' Jean Devanny, The Butcher Shop, [1926] Ed. and intr. Heather Roberts. Auckland: Auckland UP and Oxford UP, 1981. 225-234.

Pollard, Arthur, ed. Webster's New World Companion to English and American Literature. New York: World Publishing Company, 1973.

Price, Ruth. 'Agnes Smedley, an Example to Whose Cause?' The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review. 51.47, B9 (2005): 1-6.

The Literary Encyclopedia. http://www.litencyc.com/ (Accessed March-June 2008).

Willis, J. H. Jnr. 'The Censored Language of War: Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero and Three Other War Novels of 1929.' Twentieth Century Literature, 45.4 (1999): 467-487.