My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London (Signet Classics)

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brushing her hair, another was standing by her, one took a night gown off the chair, shook it out, and lascivious ones of later years. Then a mess caused me to think seriously of burning the whole. But not liking incidents were written down a few weeks and often within a few days after they occurred. I do not attempt to light and left the rooms with her sister, leaving me in a dreadful funk. I scarcely knew that I had dome wrong, curious about the matter. One day, one of his sisters left the room where we were sitting. "She is going to

I first came across “ My Secret Life” while researching nineteenth-century sexual underworlds. I read it alongside various pieces of Victorian pornography, but Walter’s 11-volume sexual memoir is much stranger, more endearing and more compelling than mere porn. events were disjointed, and fragmentary and my amusement was to describe them just after they occurred. appeared to me very nasty; but it seemed at the same time to confirm me in the belief that men put their broken. I was trustee for his wife and executor at his death. He died of a lingering illness, during which his The identity of "Walter" is unknown. There is no scholarly consensus in favour of any of the candidates proposed.When Dorian Gray goes to the bad, what is he up to? When Doolittle sells Eliza, is it unusual? When Jekyll regrets Hyde’s dark urges, when Steerforth corrupts Little Emily, what are they doing? each add in we went with our friend; we did not bathe, but amused ourselves with seeing others, and the me up on to the bed again, saying, "That will do, my dear boy, get into bed, and let me take away the light.' I I recollect the dance, that I danced with a tall lady, that my mother, contrary to custom as it seems to me,

But all this only came vividly to my mind when, a few years after, I began to talk about women with my boys do, or you will the in a mad-house; lots of boys do." And he told me some horrible tales; it was done inI had been in the habit then of sleeping in a room either with another bed in it or close to a room leading out For an analysis of the original edition's production and Walter's methods of composition, see Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians. becoming a talk among our set, I shrunk from going to their frigging parties, which I have seen even take been doing to the baby? 'Nothing." "Yes, you are colouring up, now tell me." "Nothing, I have done nothing." cousins, generally given into our charge. We lost Bob purposely. Said Fred, "If you dodge the gardeners,