Lady Bumtickler's Revels Explained

Lady Bumtickler's Revels
Author:	John Camden Hotten
Language:	English
Release Date:	1872
Media Type:	Print

Lady Bumtickler's Revels is a pornographic book written as a spoof libretto for a comic opera on the theme of flagellation.^[1] It was written and published by John Camden Hotten in 1872^[2] in his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress.^{[3] [4]} It purports to have been "performed at Lady Bumtickler's private theatre in Birch Grove, with unbounded applause".^[5] The characters, Master Lovebirch and Lady Belinda Flaybum, praise the delights of masochism, for example: "the male sex may taste something exquisitely sweet in a whipping from the hands of a woman".^[6]

External links

• Full text of Lady Bumtickler's Revels on archive.org

Notes and References

1. Chakravorty, Swapan and Gupta, Abhijit (eds.) (2011). New Word Order: Transnational Themes in Book History. p. 85. Worldview Publications.
2. Book: John Sutherland (author)

   . John Sutherland (author) . John Sutherland . The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction . Stanford University Press . 1990 . 0-8047-1842-3 . 307 .

3. Book: Prins, Yopie . Victorian Sappho . Princeton University Press . 1999 . 0-691-05919-5 . 152 .
4. Book: Thomas, Donald Serrell . Donald Serrell Thomas

   . Donald Serrell Thomas . A long time burning: the history of literary censorship in England . Routledge & Kegan Paul . 1969 . 270 .

5. Book: Hurwood, Bernhardt J. . The golden age of erotica . Sherbourne Press . 1965 . 166 .
6. News: Rude Britannia: Erotic secrets of the British Museum : The British Museum and British Library have some of the biggest collections of smut in the world including S&M magazines . . 30 August 2009 . Tony Barrell.