Vintage Erotic Literature

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Originally Posted by elephas

3 books by Roger Benson, an English spanking artist and writer of the 1950s - 60s.

Many thanks for these, and also the Martin Pyx books.
But is there some mistake with "Bare Bottomed at Birchwell" (1962)?
The file seems to contain one of the Bared Affair issues.

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The books in this archive are mostly bawdy drinking songs, but there's a fair collection of Victorian and Edwardian erotica there too.
It's not easy to navigate, but these links should start you off.

http://www.horntip.com
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1600s/index.htm

[elephas]

Originally Posted by tombed

But is there some mistake with "Bare Bottomed at Birchwell" (1962)?
The file seems to contain one of the Bared Affair issues.

There is no mistake. "Bare Bottomed at Birchwell" is the third part of the Lorna Jane trilogy, published in various issues of Bared Affair.

[elephas]

Originally Posted by tombed

The books in this archive are mostly bawdy drinking songs, but there's a fair collection of Victorian and Edwardian erotica there too.
It's not easy to navigate, but these links should start you off.

http://www.horntip.com
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1600s/index.htm

Some vintage books from this site.


The Merry Order of St. Bridget (1869) - by Margaret Anson
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...(HC)/index.htm

Library Illustrative of Social Progress (1870s) - collected by Henry Thomas Buckle
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...HCs)/index.htm
Vol. 1: Exhibition of Female Flagellants (1777)
Vol. 2: Exhibition of Female Flagellants (1785)
Vol. 3: Lady Bumtickler's Revels
Vol. 4: A Treatise of the Use of Flogging (1761)
Vol. 5: Madame Birchini's Dance
Vol. 6: Sublime of Flagellation

Ashbee Bibliography (1877-85) - by Henry Ashbee (Pisanus Fraxi)
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...hbee/index.htm
Volume 1 - Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Volume 2 - Centuria Librorum Absconditorum
Volume 3 - Catena Librorum Tacendorum

Astrid Cane (1891) - by Anonymous
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...(HC)/index.htm

Birch in the Boudoir (1905) - by Anonymous
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...(HC)/index.htm
Was this book a source of inspiraton for Richard Manton? Here we find some names (Elaine, Noreen) typical for Manton's novels.

The Memoirs of a Voluptuary (1906) - by Anonymous
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...(HC)/index.htm

The Way of a Man With A Maid (1908) - by Anonymous
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...HCs)/index.htm

Confessions of Lady Beatrice (1900s) - by Anonymous
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...rice/index.htm


etc.

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"My Secret Life is the longest erotic autobiography ever written. Penned anonymously during the 1800s by a wealthy English gentleman called Walter, it offers an eye and thigh opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian era. Banned from publication for its extreme and explicit content for nearly a century, My Secret Life has now come to life in the 21st century as an immersive audio book, narrated and scored by film composer Dominic Crawford Collins."

With text and lovingly-produced audio-book files. Quite a few of the free excerpts now sadly missing.
http://anonym.to/http://www.mysecretlife.org/

Text and pdfs also here:
http://anonym.to/http://www.horntip....life/index.htm

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Originally Posted by tombed

Many thanks for these, and also the Martin Pyx books.
But is there some mistake with "Bare Bottomed at Birchwell" (1962)?
The file seems to contain one of the Bared Affair issues.

All were originally found in the same places, seem to have been edited and written by the same people. “Roger Benson” was — and still is- quite cranky about reuse of his illustrations by others, but he was fine with them on Bared Affair, which seems to have come to an end circa 2005 with the passing of the “editrix”

Benson still posts on DeviantArt; he has the rather aromatic handle of “bilgepot”— seems to be the same guy

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My early teens were made so much more enjoyable by getting my hands on a reissued paperback copy of The Pearl, which focussed largely on large amounts of "rogering quim" type stories. I still have it, much thumbed.
I have now acquired its sequels, plus Man with a Maid et al, though I'm amazed at how much spanking these Victorian ladies can take, and freely admit I prefer rogering a rear, to smacking it.

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Originally Posted by elephas

Birch in the Boudoir (1905) - by Anonymous
http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_...(HC)/index.htm
Was this book a source of inspiraton for Richard Manton? Here we find some names (Elaine, Noreen) typical for Manton's novels.

I have also wondered about this. The names and some of the set pieces are very similar. I wondered whether the 1905 date for "Birch in the Boudoir" was right, but it seems to be. If it is, then yes its clearly an inspiration for Manton (whose true identity remains unknown, so far as I know).

Birch in the Boudoir is sometimes ascribed to Hugues Rebell.

Manton edited a volume in the early 1980s "Victorians in the Harem: Grove Press Victorian Library"

Richard Manton is well known for his compilations of extracts from Victorian erotic literature, and often also for confusing (even dubious) re-issuing of some of the original works under duplicate titles. This book is one of his best efforts, and in it he draws together the parts of this body of literature that relates to slavery and particularly harems, whether in the USA, UK or the Near-East. He shows that writings in this part of the genre, although still generated with erotic intent, can give clues about such aspects of life that complement the known facts, fleshing out the bare bones of history. Most of the book seems to be written by Manton, with illustrative extracts from the literature which, for once, complement rather than dominate the narrative. Several sources add to this study, and the result manages to be quite erotic itself, although also scholarly in perhaps a lightweight manner. Definitely outside the normal run of Grove Press titles that ably represented this genre in the 1980s.

The correspondence and business papers of the founder of Grove Press, Barney Rosset are now at Syracuse University. Scholars are more interested in Rosset's literary giants -- Beckett, Ionescu, William Burroughs-- but presumably correspondence with Manton is in there too.

An interesting project for someone who's near enough to Syracuse to examine these files and look for correspondence with his erotic authors.

https://library.syr.edu/digital/guid...rove_press.htm

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Full text is here: http://anonym.to/http://www.all-art....e/de_sade1.htm





Two sets of illustrations are here:
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2081
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2082

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https://royallib.com/genre/erotika_seks-en-0.html
https://royallib.com/author/Anonymous.html


On each page there are links to download in various formats. In Russian "скачать" means to download.