Exhibition of Female Flagellants explained

Exhibition of Female Flagellants is an 1830 pornographic novel published by George Cannon in London and attributed, probably falsely, to Theresa Berkley. The principal activity described is flagellation, mainly of women by women,^{[1] [2]} described in a theatrical, fetishistic style. It was republished around 1872 by John Camden Hotten^{[3] [4]} in his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress,^[5] attributed to Theresa Berkley.^[6]

Notes and References

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2. The "Singular Propensity" of Sensibility's Extremities: Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture. Katherine. Binhammer. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 2003. 9. 471–498. 10.1215/10642684-9-4-471. 144739362.
3. Rachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books", Modernism/modernity, Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009, pp.87-104 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v016/16.1.potter.html
4. Simon. Eliot. Hotten: Rotten: Forgotten? An Apologia for a General Publisher. Book History. 3. 2000. 61–93. 10.1353/bh.2000.0007. 159979222 .
5. Book: Prins, Yopie. Victorian Sappho. Princeton University Press. 1999. 0-691-05919-5. 152.
6. Book: Mudge, Bradford Keyes. The whore's story: women, pornography, and the British novel, 1684-1830. limited. Ideologies of desire. Oxford University Press. 2000. 0-19-513505-9. 246.