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Pamela

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The good news is that this is one 'fab' book, the bad news is that I already own it and read it when I was sweeter and younger.

For those of you that have been reading erotic lit from the time you had to scrounge through bookstores to find one that they ordered by mistake, I read this book about 20 years ago under the title of 'Venus in the Country - A Novel of Victorian England' published by my heros, the Grove Press...

The book was published under the moniker of Anonymous and lists that it was first published in 1895 by 'Members of the Society of Priapus...

The book deals with Pamela an 18 year old housekeeper of Mr & Mrs Rumple, landed gentry in Victorian England. Mrs. Rumple one day decides that Pamela at 18 was a little too frisky for her and that she should be sent off to work in the city while they get another housekeepr. They secretly make the arrangements to get Pamela a job as a governess in the city and the day before she leaves Mr. Rumple decides that now was the time for Pamela to be 'inspected' and also 'injected'....

Pamela certaily did like the 'injection' and goes out of her way to make sure she gets as many of these 'vaccinations' that she can . Pamela starts to work at the home of Richard and Belinda Bromely to care for her two daughters Miranda and Helen and their son Ronald. With nothing much to do, I guess, avoiding incest was one thing that certainly was not high on their list of priorities.

In this book, we also get a look into the lives of the vicar Edward Hart and his sister Edna as they finally discover that having lived together for all of their spinster lives there were a lot of fun things that they could have been doing though they years had they not been so shy. Well forget about shyness they certainly lost it and more in this book. The scenes described here are so so so erotic that I have never been able to get them out of my mind ....

If you love erotic lit then this is one of the best. Im glad I found a new copy because the paper that they use in these books starts to fade and disappear after 20 something years ....

A must have for your little erotic lit library ....

The book is very well written. Too well written I dare say. Too well written for the erotica type, that is. The discriptions of the characters, the houses and the situations are very good.

The problem is that there is too much paper wasted on that and not on the real story. There sould be more action. The book should be longer to include the great style and all the action.

The character herself is very well portrayed mixing inocense and malice in the same angelical figure. Any disciplinarian dream, that's for sure. And she learns fast too. That's the best about the book, the girl called Pamela

One thing I didn't like was that some of the characters seemed to apear out of nowhere into the book. Just like that! And they go the same way.

And what's that about the birch? The birching scenes are some of the best punishment scenes I have ever read abou. They are ritualistic and not brutal. Wonderful scenes. You will feel that you are there. That's the good part. The bad part is that there are only two of those scenes in the story.

But from the beginning to the end you will hear about birches and ways to use it.

If you enjoy erotic literature I give it a "strong buy" but if you prefer action along with literature, you should try "Beauty and the Birch".

Enjoy!

When I read this book it was under the above cover, however, I found it to be a very good example of the victorian genre.

this book left me cold and wanting....there was no erotica in this tale....i bought it b/c the reviews made it sound like a winner....it's not...well, not for me....there was no tension...no erotica....no nothing that pulled me into the story or made me care one whit about the characters....

now understand, if you are into group sex, multiple sex partners, and varied sex positions in your reading then this is sure to please

but if you need story, plot, tension, etc. then get something else...

i just wasn't into it....there was a lot of sex...multiple sex scenes and such....but again, no tension, no eroticism....when i read erotic books (or books claiming eroticism) i'd like to be brought into the story...i'd like to vibe with the characters...there wasn't even the joy of literary voyeurism....it was just cold sex...so if you are into a lot of sex without any feeling, buy this...otherwise, keep looking...