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

1. Ashbee, Henry Spencer (2007). Bibliography of Forbidden Books. Bibliography Of Forbidden Books. 3. Cosimo, Inc. pp. 242–243. ISBN 1-60206-971-9.
2. Crawford, Katherine (2007). European sexualities, 1400-1800. New approaches to European history. 38. Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 0-521-83958-0.
3. Sigel (2005) p.69
4. Sigel (2005) p.73
5. Marcus (2007) p.290
6. Chandos, John (1962). To deprave and corrupt ...: Original studies in the nature and definition of obscenity. Association Press. p. 200.
7. Marcus (2007) pp.147-148,290
8. Marcus (2007) p.140

• Marcus, Sharon (2007). Between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12835-9.
• Sigel, Lisa Z. (2005). International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3519-0.