Aet. 36, to Frederick Greenwood, editor of the St. James’s Gazette. The Society for the Suppression of Vice was superseded in 1885 by the National Vigilance Association. On 10 August 1888 following a campaign by the Association, publisher Henry Vizetelly was committed to trial for the publication of Zola’s Nana, Pot-Bouille, and La Terre in English translation. Such prosecutions in London were limited to texts in English. The trial convened on 31 October 1888. George Moore previously argued for literary censorship in his pamphlet Literature at Nurse (1885).
Leave a comment