Authors: Anonymous
ISBN-13: 9780007300389, ISBN-10: 0007300387
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Date Published: February 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
These stories are taken from The Pearl (A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading), which was published between 1879 and 1880, and which across its 18-issue lifetime reveled unashamedly in its reputation for salubrious gossip from the upper echelons of society.
Lewd, bawdy, and sensual, this cult classic is a collection of Victorian erotica that circulated in an underground magazine known as The Pearl from July 1879 to December 1880. Now dusted off and totally uncensored, the journal of voluptuous reading that titillated the eminent Victorians is reprinted in its entirety. The 18 issues of The Pearl are packed with short stories, naughty poems, ballads of sexual adventure, letters, limericks, jokes, gossip, and six serialized novels including "La Rose d'Amour," filled with inventive and exotic lovemaking scenes; "My Grandmother's Tale," with graphic descriptions of initiations into pleasure; "Miss Coote's Confession," a tale demonstrating the Victorian interest in flagellation; and "Young Beginners," a collection of exuberant sexual adventures. Scatological and scandalous, The Pearl is definitely not for the straitlaced or pure of mind.
The Pearl No. 11 | ||
Sub-Umbra | 2 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 6 | |
Lady Pokingham | 14 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 27 | |
Nursery Rhymes | 33 | |
The Pearl No. 237 | ||
Sub-Umbra | 37 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 42 | |
Lady Pokingham | 51 | |
Letter from Harriet Keene | 63 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 64 | |
Nursery Rhymes | 70 | |
The Pearl No. 373 | ||
Sub-Umbra | 73 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 77 | |
Charlie Collingwood's Flogging | 86 | |
Lady Pokingham | 93 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 98 | |
Nursery Rhymes | 104 | |
The Pearl No. 4107 | ||
Sub-Umbra | 107 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 112 | |
Young Beginners | 123 | |
An Epistle to a Lady | 129 | |
Lady Pokingham | 131 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 135 | |
Nursery Rhymes | 139 | |
The Pearl No. 5143 | ||
Sub-Umbra | 143 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 149 | |
The State's New Duty | 159 | |
Lady Pokingham | 163 | |
A Black Joseph: The Trial of Mrs. Inglefield | 168 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 170 | |
Nursery Rhymes | 176 | |
The Pearl No. 6179 | ||
Sub-Umbra | 179 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 184 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 194 | |
Lady Pokingham | 198 | |
Two Extraordinary Letters (from a Tryal) | 203 | |
Fables and Maxims | 205 | |
More Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 206 | |
Nursery Rhymes | 210 | |
The Pearl No. 7213 | ||
Sub-Umbra | 213 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 220 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 224 | |
Pleasures of Memory | 234 | |
The Trial of Captain Powell | 236 | |
Lady Pokingham | 239 | |
More Poetry | 244 | |
The Pearl No. 8249 | ||
La Rose d'Amour | 249 | |
Fables and Maxims | 258 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 259 | |
Lady Pokingham | 268 | |
Sub-Umbra (conclusion) | 275 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 282 | |
The Pearl No. 9285 | ||
La Rose d'Amour | 285 | |
An Adventure with a Tribade | 296 | |
Miss Coote's Confession | 300 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 310 | |
Lady Pokingham | 312 | |
More Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 320 | |
The Pearl No. 10323 | ||
La Rose d'Amour | 323 | |
Sally's Mistake | 336 | |
Miss Coote's Confession (conclusion) | 339 | |
Lady Pokingham | 349 | |
The Arithmetician | 357 | |
The Pearl No. 11359 | ||
La Rose d'Amour | 359 | |
Frank Fane--A Ballad | 368 | |
My Grandmother's Tale | 373 | |
Lady Pokingham | 387 | |
The Pearl No. 12395 | ||
La Rose d'Amour | 395 | |
My Grandmother's Tale | 406 | |
A Secret Revealed | 416 | |
The Marriage Morn | 420 | |
Lady Pokingham | 421 | |
The New Patent Fucking Machine | 427 | |
The Pearl No. 13429 | ||
La Rose d'Amour | 429 | |
Julien's Concert | 439 | |
My Grandmother's Tale | 440 | |
Flunkeyania | 451 | |
Lady Pokingham | 456 | |
The Pearl No. 14465 | ||
La Rose d'Amour | 465 | |
My Grandmother's Tale | 478 | |
The Good Nobleman | 489 | |
Flunkeyania | 490 | |
Lady Pokingham | 494 | |
The Pearl No. 15501 | ||
La Rose d'Amour | 501 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c | 508 | |
My Grandmother's Tale | 510 | |
Flunkeyania | 519 | |
The Old Dildoe | 524 | |
Lady Pokingham (conclusion) | 527 | |
Sweet Polly | 534 | |
The Burial of Sir John Thomas | 535 | |
The Pearl No. 16537 | ||
La Rose d'Amour (conclusion) | 537 | |
The Blue Vein | 549 | |
My Grandmother's Tale | 552 | |
Flunkeyania | 562 | |
Nursery Rhymes | 569 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 569 | |
The Pearl No. 17573 | ||
My Grandmother's Tale | 573 | |
Drawing-Room Passe Temps | 585 | |
The Bankrupt Bawd | 587 | |
Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 589 | |
Flunkeyania (conclusion) | 590 | |
Memoranda from Mr. P-- | 598 | |
Things I Don't Like to See | 602 | |
More Poetry, Facetiae, &c. | 604 | |
The Pearl No. 18609 | ||
My Grandmother's Tale (conclusion) | 609 | |
Acrostics & Facetiae | 615 | |
The Sultan's Reverie | 617 | |
How He Lost His Whiskers | 625 | |
The Novice | 636 | |
Poetry | 640 |