Naomi Wolf’s UK publisher has promised to make corrections to the feminist author’s latest book after a British writer successfully challenged its accuracy about gay men executed in Victorian England.

The American author claimed two males were sentenced to death at the Old Bailey in the mid 1850’s for sodomy, despite the last recorded hanging for gay sex in the UK being 1835.

But in a humiliating interview on Radio 3, Matthew Sweet told her she had failed to establish what the legal term “death recorded” on court documents really means.

Discussing her book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, Wolf wrongly claimed her research proved hangings for sodomy took place after 1835 when James Pratt and John Smith were executed for gay sex.

Her book claims Old Bailey records show Thomas Silver, “aged 14”, was “actually executed for committing sodomy” in 1859.

She wrote: “The boy was indicted for an unnatural offence. GUILTY - Death recorded.”