The Birchen Bouquet is a work of pornography first published around 1770, reprinted in 1826 by George Cannon, in 1860 by William Dugdale and again in 1881 by William Lazenby (when it was said to have been printed at Birchington-on-Sea). It consists of a compilation of flagellation stories, mainly of women by women, some taken from The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (Marcus notes the curious fact that some material from this fashion magazine was reprinted verbatim in pornographic works). Henry Spencer Ashbee described it as "very ordinary and insipid", expressing surprise at its frequent reprinting.
References
- ^ Ashbee, Henry Spencer (2007). Bibliography of Forbidden Books. Bibliography Of Forbidden Books. Vol. 3. Cosimo, Inc. pp. 242–243. ISBN 978-1-60206-971-8.
- Crawford, Katherine (2007). European sexualities, 1400-1800. New approaches to European history. Vol. 38. Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-521-83958-7.
- Sigel (2005) p.69
- Sigel (2005) p.73
- Marcus (2007) p.290
- Chandos, John (1962). To deprave and corrupt ...: Original studies in the nature and definition of obscenity. Association Press. p. 200.
- Marcus (2007) pp.147-148,290
- Marcus (2007) p.140
- Marcus, Sharon (2007). Between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12835-1.
- Sigel, Lisa Z. (2005). International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3519-0.
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