![]() The format of the magazine can be seen as a parody of contemporary magazines aimed at the family market.ĩ. A number of the poems are thought to have been written by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The publisher William Lazenby also wrote some of the articles. The general format of the magazine was to publish three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest and flagellation, respectively, interspersed with obscene parodies, poems and limericks. Lazenby followed it with The Oyster (1883) and The Boudoir. ![]() The Pearl, A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading was an eotic 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. Truly, Fifty Shades of Grey might look like a kiddie lit in comparison with the following 10 popular erotic books of 19th century. I found this list in one of my favorite Russian blogs and couldn’t resist to make a post of it. Much of this thinking, however, has been subverted by their erotic writing of the time. ![]() The pre-Victorians and Victorians may have attempted to show the world that they were upright, strict and full of virtue.
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