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My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London

My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London

Kincaid, James R.
Sawyer, Paul
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Series: Signet Classics

Biographies GeneralSexuality

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ISBN10: 0451530721
ISBN13: 9780451530721
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: Jan 6 2015
Pages: 624
Weight: 0.63
Height: 1.28 Width: 4.24 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
From his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his amatory career, an adventurous Victorian known only as Walter records a breathtaking carnal epic through hundreds of sexual encounters with one or more nursemaids, prostitutes, cousins, actresses, workingmen, and other men's wives. In ruling everything sexual within the realm of possibility, Walter reveals varied delights...whims and fancies normal and abnormal, sexual violence, fetishes--and sometimes, surprisingly, love. From his many escapades, he learns an invaluable lesson: One can never know too much concerning human nature. Portraying an era of notorious repression, in which the appearance of propriety had to be strictly maintained, My Secret Life provides a rare look at the hidden side of Victorian life: the upstairs and downstairs encounters where nothing is proper--or forbidden. First published in London around 1900, this landmark work freshly illuminates the complex sexual dynamics of a society strictly divided between rich and poor, male and female, sexual and chaste. In James Kincaid's abridgment, Walter and his world come to vivid life in new and often surprising ways.

Edited and with an Introduction by James Kincaid and with an Afterword by Paul Sawyer

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