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The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After

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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.