THE EVENING DESPATCH

Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

25 July 1933

(page 7)

“CONFESSIONS”

Author’s Complaints of

Ethel Mannin’s Book

Mr. Justice Farwell in the Chancery Division to-day refused to grant an interim injunction to stop further publication of Miss Ethel Mannin's book, “Confessions and Impressions.”

Mr. Aleister Crowley, the author, seeking the injunction against Jarrolds, publishers (London), Ltd.; William Brendon and Sons, Ltd., printers; and Mrs. Ethel Edith Porteous (Ethel Manning), complained of certain passages in the book.

Mr. John W. Morris, for Miss Mannin, said she had filed an affidavit to the effect that Mr. Crowley knew at the time of publication in 1930 that the book contained an illusion [sic] to him. She said she accepted his invitation to a cocktail party, at which he was perfectly friendly and made no protest against anything which she had written, and did not ask her to withdraw or alter anything.

Mr. Gallop (for Mr. Crowley) said he denied that he knew anything at all about the book when it was published.

Mr. Justice Farwell said this was a case in which he could not grant an injunction on the motion. There would be no order except that the costs be costs in the action in which Mr. Crowley was claiming damages for alleged libel.