> In 1967 Grove Press published LIGHT ON DARKCORNERS: A COMPLETE SEXUAL
> SCIENCE AND GUIDE TO PURITY, by B. G. Jefferis and
> J. L. Nichols. It is a conservative manual about sex, marriage, neurosis
>
> and disease warning men and women of the hideous results of various
> forms of vice and expressing the necessity for restraint of
> sensuality, yet taking into account the scientific findings of the
> Eugenics
> movement. The book was apparently first published in 1916, written by
> Jefferis and publisehd by J L Nichols and Company as SEARCH LIGHTS ON
> HEALTH; LIGHT ON DARK
> CORNERS . . . . Would anyone know why the Grove Press would publish such
>
> a title, especially after it had become well established as a publisher
> of sexually explicit and politically left-wing fiction and non-fiction,
> including a lot of Victorian erotica?
...... perhaps they just got too tired........... ? ;-)
PDH
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P D Hingley, Librarian, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0NL England
Tel 0171 734 4582 /3307 FAX 0171 494 0166
e-mail pdh@ras.org.uk
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