Kathleen Mansfield, was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages.Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity.Contents:In A German Pension

When precocious and inquisitive Jessie is caught in a compromising position with her foster sibling Rene, she, being the most unruly is shown the door. It is no long before she is on the steps of Madame Lafronde's home for wayward delinquents, young woman of licentious character and looks to match. Seeing that Jessie is slight of frame and young of features she sees an opportunity to earn a not inconsiderable amount of a money from the gentlemen callers that usually drop into her establish...

My Secret Life brought us the story of Walter and his unerring pursuit of sexual pleasures unabashed by the conformity about him. In 'Eveline' however, we have a rare example of a woman's perspective on sexual liberation, as our heroine embarks on a grand voyage of the male and female physique, savouring all from stable boy to sailor to lord and lady.Altogether headstrong and knowledgeable in the deeds and devices of libertine pleasures, Eveline lives to experience the sup...

Lady Harpur returns to narrate this grand homage to all things licentious. Together with Lord Ferrars, she and her husband plays host to a group that have no physical or moral boundaries at all. Partaking in all deeds and devices front and back, ménage, lesbian tribadism, and gamahuching a plenty, it is not long before their newest recruit and eager young disciple Clara loses herself in the wildest and most unrestrained of sexual abandons.Pseudonymously written in 1885 and publishe...

When his drunken and impoverished brother dies, Lord Roxboro is none too pleased to discover he is to act as ward to two nieces for surely they will be the dirty brats he remembers and will cost him dearly of his dwindling fortunes. However, as they depart the stagecoach at the door of his mansion what he sees are anything but childlike or urchin, his eyes in fact falling upon two young woman of stunning beauty and grace.Roxboro house is a den of the most libidinous and scandalous ...

This long-censored gem of Victorian erotica, presented here in its original unexpurgated form, tells the story of our fifty-year-old protagonist as he recounts in sumptuously graphic detail the sexual conquests which have flavoured his life from youth to man.A gentleman of means with an appetite to match, James Clinton uses his wealth and influence to seduce the timid Lady-set of his high-society into an orgiastic frenzy, freeing within each of them a long-suppressed desire to be d...

The Pearl, A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading was a pornographic monthly magazine issued for 18 months in London by William Lazenby from July 1879 to December 1880, with two Christmas supplements;it was closed down by the authorities for publishing obscene literature. Lazenby followed it with The Oyster (1883) and The Boudoir. The general format of the magazine was to publish three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high socie...

My father possessed a large and flourishing estate on one of the West Indian islands before the emancipation of the slaves. My baptismal name is Charlotte, but from the fancied likeness to a picture of the English queen of the name, my father called me Queenie, which pet name has clung to me ever since. The first event of any importance in connection with my subject which I can remember occurred when I was about ten years old. I had then a black nurse called Dora, in whose charge I was esp...

An awakening in a whore's bedroom is, as a rule, cheerless. One is vague as to one's whereabouts, as a rule sore on the John Thomas, and a general feeling of having made a bloody fool of oneself is most often mixed with a wonder whose pyjamas you've got on and whether you've got the clap or possibly worse. Charles Vernon St Just Osmond, fifth off the succession to the earldom of Osmond, very much a 'younger son', with a good deal less money even than most younger sons, turned over twice, f...

I was born in the village of D——, in the country of L——, and (like most Others) had but one mOther, but cannot exactly answer for the number of fathers, as my poor innocent mOther had more than once aspersions thrown on her character. One said she was seen, while my nominal father was from home, to go in her nightgown to the barn, where had a few minutes before our man, John Cods, been gone. A servant maid spread abroad that once passing her room she heard a whispering, and, knowing her ma...

When Adelina is caught in the most compromising of positions, she is soon sent to a convent school for wayward adolescents in far off France.The first part of this gem describes our female protagonist’s first tastes of lust as she embarks on a torrid and forbidden love affair with her tutor. Their gradual draw to one another is wonderfully erotic, each attempting to hold back but unable to do so. The old monk, eager not to spoil Adelina's virginity, introduces her to all those forb...

In the our first story our curious and precarious young female protagonist recounts in lusciously graphic detail those unknown deeds that men and women are want to practice when their passions are high. From the gentlemen callers that visit her mother when he father is working the railroad, to the lascivious old men at the old folks home who like nothing better than being titillated by a lithe and young wantonness, she reveals all in unabashed glory. But will she let her friends Lizzie and...