THE LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO

Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

25 July 1933

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MISS ETHEL MANNIN’S BOOK.

Injunction Application Refused.

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, author, seeking the injunction against Jarrolds, Publishers (London), Ltd., William Brendon and Sons, Ltd., printers and Mrs. Ethel Edith Porteous (Ethel Mannin) complained of certain passages in the book.

Mr. John W. Morris, for Miss Ethel 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 allusion 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 thus 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.