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Notes
1. For a discussion of the Pauvert trial, see Ladenson, Dirt for Art’s Sake, 229–31; see also Pauvert, L’Affaire Sade. For a discussion of the Roth opinions, see Kendrick, The Secret Museum, 209–211; see also Rembar, The End of Obscenity, 45–58, 453–68.
2. For discussions of the impact of Réage’s work, see St. Jorre, Venus Bound, 202–26; Wyngaard, “The End of Pornography.”
3. Letter from Trocchi to Beckett, 19 October 1952, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
4. St. Jorre, Venus Bound, 55
5. Ibid.
6. Letter from Wainhouse to Beckett, 22 March 1956, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
7. Letter from Beckett to Wainhouse, 22 March 1956, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
8. Seaver, The Tender Hour of Twilight, 185–86, 196.
9. See the diaries dated March 1953–February 1955, pp. 19–22, 80; June 1956–May 1957, pp. 52, 58; June 1958–May 1961, entry dated 6 March 1960. Austryn Wainhouse papers.
10. St. Jorre, Venus Bound, 215–16
11. See the diary dated June 1956–May 1957, pp. 85–87, Austryn Wainhouse papers. I am grateful to Mary Duncan for her assistance in locating these entries.
12. The Good Ship Venus was published in the United States as Venus Bound (1996).
13. See Seaver, The Tender Hour of Twilight, 360; see also letter from Wainhouse to Seaver, 15 August 1965, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
14. See the file containing the list of translations by Wainhouse, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
15. See Steinberg, “The Story of O,” 31, 62. Grove Press Records. See also Wyngaard, “The End of Pornography.”
16. Girodias did not credit Wainhouse for his translation of The White Paper. See, for example, letter from Wainhouse to Seaver, 23 August 1965, Austryn Wainhouse papers. The Wainhouse holdings complement the materials contained in the Jean Cocteau collection also housed in the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center.
17. See letters from Wainhouse to Beauvoir, 15 April 1957 and 5 May 1957, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
18. See the files on Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski in the Austryn Wainhouse papers.
19. See the numerous letters contained in three folders dedicated to Wainhouse’s correspondence with Richard Seaver, Austryn Wainhouse papers; see also Wyngaard, “Translating Sade.”
20. Although Wainhouse sent a revised version of his translation to Seaver in August 1997, at Wainhouse’s request, Seaver returned his manuscript to him in April 1998. A copy of a 26 November, 1998 e-mail that appears to duplicate the Amazon.com pre-order page indicates that Arcade planned to publish the book under both men’s names. See documents contained in the file on Arcade Press, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
21. See letter from Wainhouse to Seaver, 15 August 1965; letter from Seaver to Wainhouse, 5 June 1969, Austryn Wainhouse papers. See also St. Jorre, Venus Bound, 216.
22. For a detailed discussion of the impact of the de Sade translations, see Wyngaard, “Translating Sade.”
23. See the essay entitled “The Marlboro Press” in the file on The Marlboro Press, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
24. See diary dated June 1958–May 1961, 10 August 1958 entry, Austryn Wainhouse papers.
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Amy S. Wyngaard
Amy S. Wyngaard is Professor of French at Syracuse University. Author of From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French Enlightenment (U of Delaware P, 2004) and Bad Books: Rétif de la Bretonne, Sexuality, and Pornography (U of Delaware P, 2013), she has most recently written articles on the Grove Press translations of the works of the marquis de Sade and Pauline Réage.