Lady Bumtickler's Revels

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

References

  1. ^ John Sutherland (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. p. 307. ISBN 0804718423. 
  2. ^ Prins, Yopie (1999). Victorian Sappho. Princeton University Press. p. 152. ISBN 0691059195. 
  3. ^ Thomas, Donald Serrell (1969). A long time burning: the history of literary censorship in England. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 270. 
  4. ^ Hurwood, Bernhardt J. (1965). The golden age of erotica. Sherbourne Press. p. 166. 
  5. ^ Tony Barrell (30 August 2009). "Rude Britannia: Erotic secrets of the British Museum". The Sunday Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6812813.ece.