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Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Twisted Clay
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'She loved … and killed … both men and women. She was utterly beautiful and utterly mad. This is a tale of passionate horror … a breath-taking venture into abnormal psychology … a story which cannot be forgotten.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Salt Publishing 2014 reprint).

Banned in Australia

Censorship Agencies: Book Censorship Board
Decision: 15 Jul 1935
NAA Source: A3023; Folder 1935/36
Censorship notes: Released on 19.09.1959.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,:Salt Publishing , 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Frank Walford and the 'Blue Mountaineers', Jim Smith , single work criticism
An overview of Frank Walford's place within the 'Blue Mountaineers': a small literary salon centred on Katoomba, and including Eleanor Dark, Eric Dark, Eric Lowe, Nina Lowe, and Osmar White, in addition to Walford.
 (p. xiii-xxv)
Note: Published in the 2014 Salt Publishing edition.
The Reception of Twisted Clay, James Doig , single work criticism

An overview of the publication history and censorship of Twisted Clay.

 (p. xxvi-xxxvi)
Note: Published in the 2014 Salt Publishing edition.
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Werner Laurie ,       1933 .
      Extent: 249p.
      Note/s:
      • Epigraph: None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
        A vessel of a more ungainly Make:
        'They sneer at me for leaning all awry;
        What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?'
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Claude Kendall ,       1934 .
      Extent: 3 p. l., 5-249 p.p.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Horwitz , 1960 .
      person or book cover
      Extent: 224p.
      Reprinted: 1966
    • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Salt Publishing ,       2014 .
      image of person or book cover 181381660288332966.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 308p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 May 2014.
      ISBN: 97818447171163
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Works about this Work

The Reception of Twisted Clay James Doig , 2014 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Twisted Clay 2014; (p. xxvi-xxxvi)

An overview of the publication history and censorship of Twisted Clay.
The Novel : Novels of Purpose H. M. Green , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied : A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books Published After the Arrival of the First Fleet Until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications Up to 1960 1961; (p. 1122-1152)
Where is the Australian Bush? Nettie Palmer , 1934 single work review criticism
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 September vol. 6 no. 9 1934; (p. 175-176)
— Review of Burnt Sugar F. E. Baume , 1934 single work novel ; Twisted Clay Frank Walford , 1933 single work novel ; The Moving Finger Alice Meagher , 1934 single work novel ; Conflict E. V. Timms , 1934 single work novel ; Centenary Gift Book 1934 anthology short story poetry extract essay drama
Where is the Australian Bush? Nettie Palmer , 1934 single work review criticism
— Appears in: All About Books , 13 September vol. 6 no. 9 1934; (p. 175-176)
— Review of Burnt Sugar F. E. Baume , 1934 single work novel ; Twisted Clay Frank Walford , 1933 single work novel ; The Moving Finger Alice Meagher , 1934 single work novel ; Conflict E. V. Timms , 1934 single work novel ; Centenary Gift Book 1934 anthology short story poetry extract essay drama
The Novel : Novels of Purpose H. M. Green , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied : A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books Published After the Arrival of the First Fleet Until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications Up to 1960 1961; (p. 1122-1152)
The Reception of Twisted Clay James Doig , 2014 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Twisted Clay 2014; (p. xxvi-xxxvi)

An overview of the publication history and censorship of Twisted Clay.
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