An Oxford-educated feminist author is to have the US edition of her book pulped after she claimed that the UK executed men for being gay in the Victorian era.

Naomi Wolf based her book ‘Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalisation of Love’ on a PHD thesis she wrote in 2015, but was found to have made significant factual errors earlier this year.

Ms Wolf said that she found examples of “several dozen executions” of men accused of having sex with other men in the Victorian era, but in an interview with the BBC, it was pointed out that she had misinterpreted court records.

Her book claimed 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.”