My Secret Life: The Erotic Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman by Walter
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Overview: My Secret Life, by "Walter", is the memoir of a gentleman describing his sexual development and experiences in Victorian England. It is by far one of the most famous and longest sexual autobiographies ever written. The work is enormous, amounting to over one million words, spread over four thousand pages in eleven volumes. It was first published in 1888. This upload contains the entire text. The text’s frank discussion of sexual matters and other hidden aspects of Victorian life make it a rare and valuable social document. It has been described as "one of the strangest and most obsessive books ever written". In the twentieth century, My Secret Life was pirated and reprinted in a number of abridged versions that were frequently suppressed for obscenity. In 1932, for example, a New York publisher was arrested for issuing the first three volumes. In the USA, it was finally published without censorship in 1966 by Grove Press, but in 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years’ prison for producing a UK reprint. It was not until 1995 that the work in its entirety was published openly in the UK, by Arrow Books. The true identity of "Walter" is unknown. The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900). He was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert on erotic books in his day.
The question of how much the book is a record of true experiences (whether of Ashbee or another writer), and how much is fiction or erotic fantasy can probably never be fully resolved. However, the presence of much mundane detail, the writer’s inclusion of incidents that do him little personal credit, and the lack of intrinsically improbable circumstances (in contrast to most Victorian erotica) lend it considerable credibility. In spite of "Walter’s" obsessive womanising over a period of several decades, only a few of his partners are of his own social class. The great majority are either prostitutes, servants or working class women. This would appear to reflect the realities of his time. Internal evidence from the book suggests that "Walter" was born between 1820 and 1825. In the last volume he notes seeing the books through print, which indicates that he was still alive in the 1890s.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Autobiography and Memoir | Erotica
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