George Reginald Bacchus Explained
George Reginald Bacchus (1874–1945) was an English writer. He wrote a number of erotic books published by the Erotika Biblion Society.[1] [2]
Life
He was the son of George Henry Bacchus of the New South Wales Artillery and his wife Mary Constance Annie Woolley, daughter of John Woolley.[3] He was educated at Clifton College, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1892.[4]
Bacchus married Isa Bowman, a former child-actress and friend of Lewis Carroll, in 1899.[5] In 1899–1900 he published a fictionalised version of her life on the stage in Society, a magazine he was editing.[2] Leonard Smithers commissioned a pornographic version which was published as The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906),[6] [7] [8] [9] the first two volumes printed by Duringe of Paris and the last in London.[2]
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Notes and References
- Patrick J. Kearney, A history of erotic literature, Parragon, 1982,, pp.153-154,181
- James G. Nelson, Peter Mendes, Publisher to the decadents: Leonard Smithers in the careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Penn State Press, 2000,, p.291
- Book: Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles. Armorial Families. 7th. 1929–30. Hurst & Blackett. London. 67. 1.
- Book: Foster . Joseph . Oxford Men, 1880-1892, with a record of their schools, honours and degrees. Illustrated with portraits and views . 1893 . J. Parker . Oxford . column 25 .
- Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green, The Letters of Lewis Carroll: 1886-1898, Volume 2 of The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Macmillan, 1979,, p.710
- Frank A. Hoffmann, Analytical survey of Anglo-American traditional erotica, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1973,, p.34
- Tracy C. Davis, "The Actress in Victorian Pornography", Theatre Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, Performance in Context (Oct., 1989), pp. 294-315 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3208182
- Book: Davis, Tracy C. . Actresses as working women: their social identity in Victorian culture . Gender and performance . Routledge . 1991 . 0-415-05652-7 . 145, 180, 183.
- Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, Victorian scandals: representations of gender and class, Ohio University Press, 1992,, pp.113,131
