The Birchen Bouquet

The Birchen Bouquet is a work of pornography first published around 1770,^[1]^[2] reprinted in 1826 by George Cannon,^[1]^[3] in 1860 by William Dugdale^[1] and again in 1881 by William Lazenby^[4] (when it was said to have been printed at Birchington-on-Sea).^[5] It consists of a compilation of flagellation stories,^[1]^[6] mainly of women by women,^[7] some taken from The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (Marcus notes the curious fact that some material from this fashion magazine was reprinted verbatim in pornographic works^[8]). Henry Spencer Ashbee described it as "very ordinary and insipid", expressing surprise at its frequent reprinting.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ashbee, Henry Spencer (2007). Bibliography of Forbidden Books. Bibliography Of Forbidden Books. Vol. 3. Cosimo, Inc. pp. 242–243. ISBN 978-1-60206-971-8.
^ Crawford, Katherine (2007). European sexualities, 1400-1800. New approaches to European history. Vol. 38. Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-521-83958-7.
^ Sigel (2005) p.69
^ Sigel (2005) p.73
^ Marcus (2007) p.290
^ Chandos, John (1962). To deprave and corrupt ...: Original studies in the nature and definition of obscenity. Association Press. p. 200.
^ Marcus (2007) pp.147-148,290
^ Marcus (2007) p.140

Marcus, Sharon (2007). Between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12835-1.
Sigel, Lisa Z. (2005). International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3519-0.

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