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The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900). He was a book collector, writer and bibliographer, and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert on erotic books in his day.
Aug 7, 2017 · The historic importance of My Secret Life is elegantly summed up by Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith & Tipping the Velvet: I first came across “ My Secret Life ” while researching nineteenth-century sexual underworlds.
My Secret Life is an invaluable source of information on sexual activity in the last part of the 19th century. It tells about prices of prostitutes, homosexual encounters, age of consent, and other similar information not available anywhere else.
- Vern L. Bullough
- 2000
The Publishing History of “My Secret Life” by Walter. In 1888 Walter’s hand written manuscript (amounting to over one million words) was smuggled out of England to be privately printed in Amsterdam.
‘Walter’ was the anonymous author of the 19th century erotic memoir, My Secret Life. In this blog I will be sharing the clues to his identity that I have uncovered during the process of narrating and scoring the audiofilm of the complete unabridged text for the last ten years.
My Secret Life is an anonymous memoir chronicling "Walter's" experiences with sex and sexuality in Victorian England. It is an enormous work, compiling over 4,000 pages and is known for its obsessive fixation with sex and incredibly detailed accounts of one man's sexual encounters throughout his life. Because it was published anonymously, it is ...
The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900). He was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert on erotic books in his day.
