raising me on my knees, and making me kneel with them straddling wide, that tender part of me, naturally the province of pleasure, not pain, came in for its share of suffering: for now, eyeing it wistfully, he directed the rod so that the sharp ends of the twigs lighted there, so sensibly, that I could not help wincing, and writhing my limbs with pain;
John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749)1
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Notes
john Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (London, G. Fenton, 1749), Vol. II, pp. 155–6. Plates depicting flagellation were incorporated into the book.
Ashbee, Vol. I, p. xli.
Anna Clark, ‘Humanity or Justice? Wife-beating and the Law in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, in Carol Smart (ed.), Regulating Womanhood. Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality (London, Routledge, 1992), pp. 187–206; A. Simpson, Biographical Dictionary of Common Law (London, Butterworth, 1984), p. 88; Peter Wagner, ‘The Discourse on Sex — or Sex as Discourse. Eighteenth-century and paramedical erotica’, in G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter (eds.), Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1987), pp. 48–68.
Jean Louis Lolme, The History of the Flagellants (London, G. Robinson, 1783), pp. 70, 77.
John Henry Meibomius, A Treatise Of the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs: Also of the Office of the Loins and Reins (London, E. Curll, 1718), p. 34.
Michel Millot and Jean L’Ange (trans. Donald Thomas), The School of Venus (London, Panther Books Limited, 1972), pp. 128–9.
See Julie Peakman, ‘Flagellation in the Eighteenth Century’, MA Dissertation, RHBNC, 1992.
William Dugdale (1800–68) was born in Stockport in 1800. He was implicated in 1819 in the Cato Street conspiracy, was frequently jailed and died in the House of Correction on 11 November 1868. He conducted his business from 23 Russell Court, Drury, at 3 Wynch Street; at 5, 16, and 37 Holywell Street and at 44 Wynch Street under the aliases Turner, Smith, Young and Brown. See Ashbee, Vol. I, p. 127.
James Hotten (1832–73) began his small publishing business in a shop at 151b Piccadilly. An avid collector of erotica, he delighted in being regarded as a respectable publisher whilst publishing obscene material. He also reprinted other eighteenth-century erotica such as Knight’s Worship of Priapus (see Chapter 5). See Ashbee, Vol. I, pp. 249–56.
Iain McCalman, Radical Underworld. Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London 1795–1840 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 204.
Iwan Bloch, Sex Life in England (New York, Panurge Press, 1934), pp. 191–239.
Charles Ramsden, London Bookbinders, 1780–1840 (London, B.T. Batsford, 1956), pp. 113, 173.
Ellic Howe, A List of London Bookbinders, 1648–1815 (London, Bibliographical Society, 1950), p. 75.
Phillip A. Brown, London Publishers and Printers c. 1800–1870 (London British Library Board, 1982).
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