Show Notes
Why did a children’s picture book provoke new form of censorship in Britain?
Danish attitudes to children produced books that upset other European cultures. Before Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin was published in 1983, a member of parliament called Geoffrey Dickens called bookshops to boycott it. In 1988, a co-operative in Cork city called the Quay Co-Cop ran a bookshop that stocked what they said was the ‘most comprehensive and up-to-date selection of lesbian and gay titles in Ireland’.
Queer Ephemera: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/jenny-lives-with-eric-and-martin-a-special/id1488294070?i=1000464529828
A Different Country (RTÉ, 11 June 2021) https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/a-different-country/207293480017
Pages from the book here: https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2012/06/1983-book-jenny-lives-with-eric-and-martin/
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