The US publisher of a new book by Naomi Wolf has cancelled its release after accuracy concerns were raised.

Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love details the persecution of homosexuality in Victorian Britain.

But during a BBC radio interview in May, it came to light that the author had misunderstood key 19th Century English legal terms within the book.

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said their parting was "amicable".

Following the BBC radio interview, Wolf admitted there were "misinterpretations" in her book.

Her UK publisher, Virago corrected the mistakes and the book went on sale in the UK.

However, US publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt delayed publication, and has now cancelled it altogether, according to the New York Times.

Dr Wolf is best known for her acclaimed third-wave feminist book The Beauty Myth and other works like Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

Her new book argues that the British Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to homosexual persecution in Britain getting worse.

But, during an interview on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme, presenter Matthew Sweet questioned key claims within it.