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Issue Details: First known date: 1935... 1935 The Virtuous Courtesan
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Banned in Australia

Censorship Agencies: Book Censorship Board
Decision: 4 Mar 1936
NAA Source: A3023 Folder 1935/36
Censorship notes: The board's chair commented: 'I don't know whether the authoress is an Australian trying to be an American, or an American trying to be Australian but it is pernicious tripe. I would ban.'
Censorship notes: The book was released at the general review on 24.04.1958.

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The Catcher in the Rye Gets Caught in the Net : Censorship and the Parliamentary Library Nicole Moore , 2013 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 180-187)
From Cosmopolitan Romance to Transnational Fiction : Re-reading Jean Devanny’s Australian Novels Nancy L Paxton , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 215-228) 'When Jean Devanny (1894-1962) left New Zealand in 1929 bound for Sydney, she considered Australia 'merely a transit point' and planned to travel on to England, believing it to be 'a more favourable location for a novelist'. Devanny gradually came to accept Australia as her home, as Carole Ferrier argues, because of her 'double commitment' to the Communist Party of Australia and to her development as a writer. While Ferrier's pioneering scholarship and definitive biography offer invaluable insights into Devanny's life and writing, I will suggest another perspective on both by exploring how her experiences in Australia transformed her into a 'transnational' subject. (p.
215)
Obscene and Over Here : National Sex and the Love Me Sailor Obscenity Trial Nicole Moore , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 20 no. 4 2002; (p. 316-329)
The Politics of Cliche : Sex, Class, and Abortion in Australian Realism Nicole Moore , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Fiction Studies , Spring vol. 47 no. 1 2001; (p. 69-91) Examines th representaion of sexuality, the "unwanted pregnancy cliche", and the prominence of abortion plots in some Australian realist novels.
From Cosmopolitan Romance to Transnational Fiction : Re-reading Jean Devanny’s Australian Novels Nancy L Paxton , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Ties : Australian Lives in the World 2009; (p. 215-228) 'When Jean Devanny (1894-1962) left New Zealand in 1929 bound for Sydney, she considered Australia 'merely a transit point' and planned to travel on to England, believing it to be 'a more favourable location for a novelist'. Devanny gradually came to accept Australia as her home, as Carole Ferrier argues, because of her 'double commitment' to the Communist Party of Australia and to her development as a writer. While Ferrier's pioneering scholarship and definitive biography offer invaluable insights into Devanny's life and writing, I will suggest another perspective on both by exploring how her experiences in Australia transformed her into a 'transnational' subject. (p.
215)
The Politics of Cliche : Sex, Class, and Abortion in Australian Realism Nicole Moore , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Fiction Studies , Spring vol. 47 no. 1 2001; (p. 69-91) Examines th representaion of sexuality, the "unwanted pregnancy cliche", and the prominence of abortion plots in some Australian realist novels.
Obscene and Over Here : National Sex and the Love Me Sailor Obscenity Trial Nicole Moore , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 20 no. 4 2002; (p. 316-329)
The Catcher in the Rye Gets Caught in the Net : Censorship and the Parliamentary Library Nicole Moore , 2013 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 180-187)
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