My Secret Life - Banned Victorian Erotica in 11 Volumes

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My Secret Life was first published between 1888-1894 in 11 volumes in Amsterdam by the Belgian-born bookseller/publisher Auguste Brancart. For the next 100 years, it remained banned and considered obscene and pornographic. The British Library has a set that it believes was published in about 1880, but "The imprint is probably false; printed in Belgium?". No-one really knows the true identity of "Walter". But biographer Ian Gibson claims it is the pen name of one Henry Spencer Ashbee, pictured left. Only 20-25 sets of My Secret Life were originally printed, and sold at ú60 per set, an enormous sum for the times, equivalent to over ú4000 ($6000) at today's prices. Famous People who owned My Secret Life     * Aleister Crowley (1875?7)       English occult writer and 'magician'     * Harold Lloyd (1893?1)       American silent film comedian and producer     * Josef von Sternberg (1894?9)       Austrian film director and Svengali to Marlene Dietrich     * George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven       great-grandson of Queen Victoria, brother of 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Key Dates in History ? 1834 Henry Spencer Ashbee born 21 Apr 1834 in Southwark, London to Robert and Frances Elizabeth Spencer ? 1859 Walter mentions the Battle of Solferino at the start of Chapter 7. Henry would be 25 years old. ? 1862 Henry Ashbee marries Elizabeth Jenny Lavi in Hamburg, Germany ? 1863 Henry and Elizabeth Ashbee's son, Charles Robert Ashbee, born 17 May 1863 in Isleworth, London ? 1888 My Secret Life first published ? 1900 Henry Spencer Ashbee dies on 29 Jul in Hawkhurst, Kent ? 1932 New York publisher issue 3 volumes of My Secret Life before being arrested ? 1964 In his book The Other Victorians (New York, 1964), Steven Marcus makes a case that Ashbee was not the author. ? 1966 New York publisher Grove Press successfully publishes My Secret Life, 78 years after original publication in two books. The introduction by Gershon Legman suggest that Ashbee is the author. ? 1967 Pendulum Press of Atlanta Georgia publishes a facsimile of all 11 volumes of the 1888 edition of My Secret Life ? 1967 Drs. Eberhard and Phyllis Kronhausen write Walter. The English Casanova. A presentation of his unique memoirs. 'My secret life' (London, Polybooks) ? 1969 UK Bradford printer Arthur Dobson sentenced to two years as a "professional purveyor of filth" ? 1995 UK publisher successfully issues "Wordsworth Editions" (not in print), 107 years after original publication ? 2000 UK's Channel 4 broadcasts "Walter: The secret life of a Victorian pornographer" (10.30pm, Tuesday, 9 May 2000) ? 2001 The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee by Ian Gibson published by Faber and Faber; ISBN: 0571196195 ? 2003 An extract of My Secret Life appears on the Web. ? 2004 The full eleven volumes of My Secret Life appears on the Web for the first time in 116 years. It is fully searchable too. The material presented here is in PDF and DOC formats which is available from the site http://www.my-secret-life.com/ in html format. The DOC format is optional for those who wish to make a proper ebook. Enjoy!!

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