Sub-titled Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After, this is a serious study of flogging and flagellation in English society by the author of The Assassination of Garcia Lorca and biographer of Dali.
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Gibson probes underworld England.,
By ENTJohns (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After (Paperback)
This is no dried scholarly book. It seethes with humour and provides insight into an area little covered because of the immense amount of research it requires. One particularly fascinating aspect is Gibson's research into the correspondence columns in the periodicals of Victorian England. He uncovered a phemonemon of immense interest to social historians: the sub-pornographic letters which appeared in the genteel women's magazines. I agree with Dr. Ridding, I return again and again to Gibson's book because here are facts so difficult to find and so illuminating of a sub-culture.
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