Vintage Erotic Literature

[the_knicker_inspector]

A Man with A Maid (sometimes referred to as The Way Of A Man With A Maid) and its sequels (no relation to the Miss Marchmont film of the same name):

NB because volumes 1 and 2 are usually published together under the same title, volumes 3 and 4 are sometimes published under the titles volume 2 and 3 respectively. A Weekend Visit is also a sequel.

Volumes 1 and 2 were first published in 1908:

NB new link:

(The Way Of) A Man With A Maid - Volumes 1 & 2.pdf
https://www.mediafire.com/file/z0gkp...526_2.pdf/file

I cannot be certain about the dates of authorship of the sequels:

NB new link:

(The Way Of) A Man With A Maid - Volume 3.pdf
https://www.mediafire.com/file/j6ktg...ume_3.pdf/file

NB new link:

(The Way Of) A Man With A Maid - Volume 4.pdf
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4yjg2...ume_4.pdf/file

NB new link:

A Weekend Visit.pdf
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ke1qv...Visit.pdf/file

Feel free to recommend or link to any other examples of vintage erotic literature you've enjoyed.

[the_knicker_inspector]

First Training, sometimes entitled Clara Birch

The influence of a sexually dominant stepmother on Clara, her older sister, brother, father, and servants - a fine example of Victorian erotica.

NB new link:

First Training.pdf
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vu9nq...ining.pdf/file

[mac1]

You will find most of Tom Sargents illustrations (and more) in this thread:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t53...strations.html

Which covers a wide range of Vintage art/illustrations and drawings.

Good idea to start a thread devoted to Literature

[jimmy the one]

There is a 1975 movie entitled "Naughty Victorians" posted by tfallon in the Classic Movies section based on this book.

[the_knicker_inspector]

Originally Posted by jimmy the one

There is a 1975 movie entitled "Naughty Victorians" posted by tfallon in the Classic Movies section based on this book.

I think it's worth mentioning that the book (volumes 1 and 2) does not include the unhappy denouement of the film!

[the_knicker_inspector]

I've just re-uploaded

(The_Way Of) A Man With A Maid - Volume 3.pdf

(The_Way Of) A Man With A Maid - Volume 4.pdf

A_Weekend Visit.pdf

in postings earlier in this thread.

[Schwenck]

Always good to see posts about Erotic :literature. The Way of a man with a Maid has long been a favourite, though, for some reason, the sequels don't do that much for me. The Romance of Lust is another favourite.

[seivad]

Full text split into 4 parts

http://www.angelfire.com/in2/lasoldeleo/O1.html
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/lasoldeleo/O2.html
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/lasoldeleo/O3.html
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/lasoldeleo/O4.html

[elephas]

Let's revive this wonderful topic!

This is a classic book in the genre of judicial corporal punishment.



Reinhard W. Nell in Bridewell. Description of the System of Corporal Punishment (Flagellation) in the Female Prisons of South Germany up to the year 1848. Paris: Society of British Bibliophiles, 1900.
(Translation from German)


The origial German edition: Reinhard, Wilhelm. Lenchen im Zuchthause. Karlsruhe, Bielfeld, 1840.






http://www.mediafire.com/file/p15bzo...w/NiB.rar/file


Illustrations:
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2026

[deepsepia]

P. N. Dedeaux - An English Education.epub
https://www38.zippyshare.com/v/ikAmDbIs/file.html

P N Dedeaux - The Prussian Girls.epub
https://www38.zippyshare.com/v/ZRVV6P9p/file.html

"Dedeaux" was a very accomplished writer and literary critic. You can read his books as pure porn, or you can read them as a kind of knowing in joke, all kinds of references to other books and writers. He resembles his friend John Glassco (author of Harriet Marwood), but his material tends towards F/F and is more severe and more sexual in tone. fairly hardcore SM, often in a school setting

P.N. Dedeaux is Geoffrey Atheling Wagner (1927-2006) an English born American translator and writer of novels, essays and criticism.

He was born in the UK before becoming a US citizen. He lived most of his life in New York and was a Professor of English there. His PhD was gained at Columbia University where he taught. He also taught at University of Rochester and NYU as well as at the City College of New York.

Wagner was married to the figurative artist Colleen Browning, whom he met in Ischia and quickly married in the US (1949). She died in 2003 at the age of 85, Geoffrey dying a few years later. He was a good friend of John Glassco, who is known for his magnificent The English Governess.

. . . and for those who want to know yet more:

There is a blog site which I can't link to here which has extensive discussion of some of the 20th century flagellation authors, here's a bit from the essay and bibliographical disussion of Dedeaux

Originally Posted by cpbiblio ~ erotic chastisement

The pseudonym P N Dedeaux is one of the most celebrated names in the history of erotic flagellation literature of the recent past. Since the relaxation of censorship, beginning in the late 1960’s, that led to an enormous increase in the availability of pornography in book form, there has been a proliferation of work in the genre nearly all of which has been published under pseudonyms ranging from the mundane to the ridiculous. Pierre DeLashe and Jean Martinet leave one in no doubt of the probable content of their work, while Kenneth Harding could be your local accountant. Some authors have been amazingly prolific none more so than Paul Hugo Litwinsky (1915-1987), the “man of 1000 pseudonyms”, who claimed to have produced over 700 works over the last third of his life.

P N Dedeaux made his name with a very much smaller body of work, about a dozen novels, only half of which were first published under the Dedeaux imprint. As is common with all pornographic fiction, the semi-underground nature of the industry meant that works were published using different titles and attributed to a range of authors. Some progress towards the resolution of this situation is one of the objects of this essay.

One of the incentives to undertake the necessary literary detection is the goal of discovering the true identity of the author behind the pen names. In the case of Dedeaux we can now be pretty certain of that identity. After the death of Barney Rossett, the founder of Grove Press and, later, Blue Moon, his estate presented the accumulated Grove Press papers, some 963 boxes in all, to the library of Syracuse University. An index to these records has been published on the web[2] and research has confirmed that the author behind Dedeaux is Geoffrey Atheling Wagner (1927-?) an English born American translator and writer of novels, essays and criticism.[3]

The Grove Press collection has index entries for Wagner and Dedeaux and provides a list of works contracted by Grove press for publication. The titles of these works are given as :

The Nothing Things
Rosie’s Aunt
Tender Buns
The Territory Within
Wealed Venus (all listed under Wagner) and
The Tutor
The Prefect
The Governess Governed (all listed under Dedeaux)

These works can be considered as the basic corpus of Dedeaux’ erotic flagellation literature. In addition the index lists some other works including a translated edition of the Selected Poems of Charles Baudelaire, published by Grove Press in 1974, and a non-fiction essay SM- The Last Taboo. The details of this work is included in this bibliography.

While Rossett proceeded to publish all of Wagner’s eroticism, mostly under the Grove Press Venus Library imprint, and later under the Blue Moon label, some of Wagner’s work had previously been published by Greenleaf, under the Classics imprint, Essex house and Taurus Press.

The detailed bibliography which follows attempts to catalogue the full publication history of Dedeaux but inevitably there are some gaps in the record which further research may be able to fill.

The attraction of Dedeaux to devotees of erotic flagellation is based on his distinctive treatment of the genre. It is mostly concerned with the discipline of young women by dominant characters of both sexes. Dedeaux heroines do not get spankings, playful or otherwise. The instrument of choice of his protagonists is the cane and the preferred target the naked female buttocks. Not that the recipients necessarily escape the birch of the strap or the paddle or always avoid an evacuating clyster or ginger fig. The setting of the tales range from Ancient Rome to twentieth century university. None of the punishment is consensual in the modern sense, but much of it is administered at least on the pretext of improving the moral character of the sufferer. And while few of the young ladies can be described as willing victims many take their just or unjust deserts with a degree of insouciance improbable in real life. If punishment is the dominant theme, Dedeaux does not shy from the depiction of the sexual lust generated in either the receiver or giver. Above all there is a certain lightness about the stories. Dedeaux does not take it too seriously – these are not dark, anguished paeans of sexual abuse.