Written 12 years before Teleny by Saul, this account of Victorian cross-dressing and rent-boys is a legend all its own. Based on the true story of a male brothel in Cleveland Street (later shut down.) Subtitled: "or, The Recollections of a Mary-Anne." The "Cities of the Plain" are of course Sodom and Gomorrah.

Written 12 years before Teleny by Saul, this account of Victorian cross-dressing and rent-boys is a legend all its own. Based on the true story of a male brothel in Cleveland Street (later shut down.) Subtitled: "or, The Recollections of a Mary-Anne." The "Cities of the Plain" are of course Sodom and Gomorrah.

This file includes three anonymous Victorian erotic novels (Forbidden Fruit, Laura Middleton, and The Power of Mesmerism), plus Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch.

Lowly maids in Victorian England, whose lives are an endless round of unremitting toil, must surely dream of better things - yet more pitiful by far is the plight of those unfortunate souls who find themselves in the service of a strict disciplinarian. James Montague is a man who delights in watching young women writhe and squirm... seeing creamy-white buttocks turn first pink, then red, then purple... hearing gasps of dismay turn to shrill cries of anguish.And maids are not alone ...

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...

Set in the form of a series of confessional essays, The Sins of the Cities of the Plain tells the tales of Jack Saul, "Mary-Ann", sold to one of his clients, Mr. Cambon, for approximately ₤20 per session. Among his fellow entertainers, wealthy patrons and a sappho or two, "Mary" reveals in graphically sumptuously graphic details the many modes and methods of how is taken. From group menages to intimate ruttings, no practice is left to the imagination.One of the first works...

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...

Jane Eyre was sent to Messrs. Smith, Elder in London in August of 1847 and, printers being less busy than they are today, was published in October of that year. It appeared in three volumes, as “An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell.” The story is well known, and deservedly so. What has not always been seen, beneath the author's brave and prescient feminism, is the algolagnic or sadomasochistic element at large throughout the narrative. Jane Eyre is profoundly and healthily s-m. It is si...

Long before the days of Christian Grey and Ana Steele, the Victorian era was a time of dangerous passions and insatiable desires. Fifty Shades of Victorian Desire reveals the secret world of Victorian erotica, in a tantalizing anthology of lust, pleasure and pain. This sensual collection leaves no fantasy unexplored, no whip unused, no heaving bosom untouched, no maidenhood unravished. A vintage world of erotic bliss, for the truly adventurous reader.

The 1154 pages of this volume contains five of the most highly explicit erotic novels ever written:My Secret Life (Volume 1)My Secret Life (Volume 2)My Secret Life (Volume 3)Forbidden FruitMore Forbidden Fruit

Locus Elm Press is proud to present William Lazenby's continuation of his infamous and genre defining Victorian erotic periodical The Pearl. Within the pages of The Boudoir: a magazine of scandal, facetiae etc are found the classically debauched tales of 'The Three Chums', 'The Adventures and Armours of a Barmaid', and 'Voluptuous Confessions of a French Lady of Fashion' interspersed with bawdy tales of utmost licentiousness and songs and poems equally graphic.Volumes V & VI, anony...