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Revision as of 19:49, 25 February 2010
The Pearl, A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading was a monthly magazine issued for 18 months in London by William Lazenby from July 1879 to December 1880, with two Christmas supplements; it was closed down by the authorities for publishing obscene literature. Lazenby followed it with The Oyster (1883) and The Boudoir.[1]
The general format of the magazine was to publish three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest and flagellation, respectively, interspersed with obscene parodies, poems and limericks.[2] The publisher William Lazenby also wrote some of the contents.[3] Some of the poems are thought to have been written by Algernon Charles Swinburne.[4][5][6]
The Pearl contains "My Grandmother's Tale", the first pornographic story based on slavery in the American South.[3]
Rhymes, songs and parodies
The Pearl published limericks under the label 'Nursery Rhymes'. The heading is facetious, as their content would certainly not be appropriate for the nursery. The following example was included in The Pearl, Issue Nº 1, July 1879.
- There was a young man from Peru,
- Who had nothing whatever to do;
- So he took out his carrot
- And he buggered his parrot,
- And sent the result to the zoo.
See also
Bibliography
- Bill Adler (ed.), "The Pearl", Blue Moon Books, 2004, ISBN 1562014102
Cameos
The Pearl's characters and venues - being Victoriana - featured in Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
References
- ^ Vance Randolph, "Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Blow the candle out", Volume 2 of Roll Me in Your Arms: Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, ed. Gershon Legman, University of Arkansas Press, 1992, ISBN 1557282374, p.898
- ^ Donald Thomas, "A Long Time Burning", Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1969, p.276
- ^ a b Lisa Z. Sigel, "International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000", Rutgers University Press, 2005, ISBN 0813535190, pp.64,73-74
- ^ Frank Bates, "Corporal Punishment in Legal, Historical and Social Context", Manitoba Law Journal 12 (1982-1983) 337
- ^ Donald Serrell Thomas, "Swinburne, the poet in his world", Oxford University Press, 1979, ISBN 0195201361, p.216
- ^ Thomas S. Weinberg "S & M: studies in dominance & submission", Prometheus Book, 1995, ISBN 087975978X, p.226
- Claudia Nelson, Michelle H. Martin, "Sexual pedagogies: sex education in Britain, Australia, and America, 1879-2000", Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 1403963509, Chap.1
- John Alfred Atkins, "Sex in literature, Volume 4", Calder & Boyars, 1982, ISBN 071453756X, pp.334-337
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