Fashionable Lectures Explained

Fashionable Lectures: Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline was a pornographic book originally published in the 18th century and republished by John Camden Hotten as volume 7 of his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress around 1872 (falsely dated 1777).[1] [2] Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee claimed that they were in fact from his collection.[3] [4] The first edition was published around 1750[5] and again with illustrations by William Holland in the 1780s.[6]

The theme of the work is flagellation[1] by dominant women in positions of authority.[7] It promoted the names of ladies offering the service in a lecture room with rods and cat o' nine tails.[8]

References

Sources

. Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono- graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books . London . privately printed . 1877 . Pisanus Fraxi .

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Notes and References

  1. Ashbee (1877) pp.257-258
  2. Book: Hoe, Robert . A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700, Volume 1 . BiblioBazaar . 2008 . 978-0-554-42753-9 . 92 .
  3. Ashbee (1877) pp.240-241
  4. Book: Bloch, Iwan . Iwan Bloch

    . Sexual life in England, past and present . Iwan Bloch . F. Aldor . 1938 .

  5. Book: In praise of the whip: a cultural history of arousal . Niklaus . Largier . Graham . Harman . Zone Books . 2007 . 978-1-890951-65-8 . 339 .
  6. Book: Alexander, David S. . Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790s . Manchester University Press . 1998 . 0-7190-5480-X . 116.
  7. Book: Thomas, Donald . Donald Serrell Thomas

    . A long time burning . Donald Serrell Thomas . Taylor & Francis . 1969 . 278 .

  8. Fashionable Lectures Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline (c1761) British Library Rare Books collection