Francis E. Murray, Advertisement flyers
Craig Archive MS1091/3/3

These advertisements for ‘paidophil verse’ and the like were assembled by anti-censorship campaigner Alec Craig, and include notices of works by authors represented elsewhere in this section.  Where extant, the content of these works is often abstracted or implied rather than explicit, but to a modern reader the language employed here, and the fact that this Ramsgate bookseller specialised in works expressing adult men longing for boys, is troubling. In total, it is a reminder that at one historical moment, queer literature largely meant such libidinous descriptions of boyhood.