My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London
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I've noticed this online edition of that famous old 19th century chestnut of erotica, My Secret Life before, don't know why I haven't posted a pointer to it before. Possibly because given my limited sensibilities it'd put me to sleep.
My Secret Life was first published between 1888-1894 in 11 volumes in Amsterdam by the Belgian-born bookseller/publisher Auguste Brancart. For the next hundred years, it remained banned and considered obscene and pornographic.
The British Library has a set that it believes was published in about 1880, but "The imprint is probably false; printed in Belgium?".
No-one really knows the true identity of "Walter". But biographer Ian Gibson claims it is the pen name of one Henry Spencer Ashbee ...
Online etext: My Secret Life by Walter