Hall’s queer text was at the centre of a moral panic and censorship show trial in England. Why did the Irish censor ban it, when an English prohibition meant Irish booksellers couldn’t source the book?
S4 E3 Hex & Sex: Smith ‘The Passionate Witch’ (1942)
Only a truly paranoid censor would ban a book this innocuous. But even barely there smut can give convent-school girls ideas…