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21. Ibid., xii.
22. Ibid., xiv.
23. Marjorie Heins, Not in Front of the Children: “Indecency,” Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), 40–41; Paul Vanderham, James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of Ulysses (New York: NYU Press, 1998), 32–34; Margaret Anderson, My Thirty Years’ War (New York: Horizon, 1969), 174–75.
24. Mervyn Griffith-Jones, lead prosecutor, opening address to the jury, October 20, 1961. C. H. Rolph, ed., The Trial of Lady Chatterley (London: Penguin, 1961), 17.
25. Ernst, in Ulysses, viii.
26. James Douglas, “A Book That Must Be Suppressed,” Sunday Express, August 19, 1928.
27. Sally Cline, Radclyffe-Hall: A Woman Called John (Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1998), 248–49.
28. Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980), 3:193, entry August 31, 1938.
29. Woolf, Diary 3:206–7 and n., entry November 10, 1928.
30. Quoted in Leslie A. Taylor, “ ‘I Made Up My Mind to Get It’: The American Trial of The Well of Loneliness, New York City, 1928–1929,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 10 (2): 250–86.
31. See Charles Rembar, The End of Obscenity (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), 476.
32. Justice Tom Clark, Dissenting Opinion in “A Book Named ‘John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure’ v. Attorney General of Massachusetts,” 383. U.S. 416, March 21, 1966.
33. Rembar, The End of Obscenity, 481.
34. “Decency Squabble,” Time, March 31, 1930.
35. See, for example, Perry L. Glantzer, “In Defense of Harry … But Not His Defenders: Beyond Censorship to Justice,” The English Journal 93, no. 4 (March 2004), 58–63; Jennifer Russuck, “Banned Books: A Study of Censorship,” The English Journal 86, no. 2 (February 1997), 67–70; and Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Blas, and Dawn B. Sova, 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature (New York: Checkmark Books, 1999), 274, 365.
36. Robert Louis Stevenson, “Samuel Pepys,” in Essays: English and American, The Harvard Classics (1909–14). (New York: Collier, 1910), vol. 28.
37. Virginia Woolf, “Montaigne,” in The Common Reader: First Series, 1925 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1984), 58.
38. Meyer Levin, “Life in the Secret Annex,” The New York Times Book Review, June 15, 1952.
39. Theodor W. Adorno, “The Meaning of Working Through the Past,” in Critical Models (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 101.
40. Cynthia Ozick, “Who Owns Anne Frank?,” The New Yorker, October 6, 1997, 76, reprinted in Ozick, Quarrel & Quandary (New York: Vintage, 2000), 77. See also Frank Rich, “Betrayed by Broadway,” The New York Times, September 17, 1995; Lawrence Graver, An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995); Ralph Melnick, The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997); Lawrence Langer, “Anne Frank Revisited,” in Using and Abusing the Holocaust (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006); Bruno Bettelheim, “The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank,” Harper’s (November 1960), 45–50.
41. Karen Spector and Stephanie Jones, “Constructing Anne Frank: Critical Literacy and the Holocaust in Eighth-Grade English,” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 51, no. 1 (September 2007), 36–48.
42. See, for example, Roger Rosenblatt, “Anne Frank,” in The Time 100, June 14, 1999. “The reason for her immortality was basically literary. She was an extraordinarily good writer, for any age.…” And “It is the cry of the Jew in the attic, but it is also the cry of the 20th century mind.”
43. Thomas Bowdler, the English physician who produced The Family Shakespeare (from 1807 to 1810), though often caricatured as a repressed Victorian who dared to alter a classic, was praised by some later readers, including the poet Swinburne, as someone who had performed a service to Shakespeare by making it possible for children to read his plays.
44. Francine Prose raises the question of whether the diary has even “been taken seriously as literature,” speculating that the failure to give Anne Frank her