Exhibition of Female Flagellants

Volume I & II: Exhibition of Female Flagellant

Exhibition of Female Flagellants is an 1830 pornographic novel published by George Cannon in London and attributed, probably falsely^[citation needed], to Theresa Berkley. The principal activity described is flagellation, mainly of women by women,[1][2] described in a theatrical, fetishistic style. It was republished around 1872 by John Camden Hotten[3][4] in his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress,[5] attributed to Theresa Berkley.[6]

References

1. Fowler, Patsy; Jackson, Alan (2003). Launching Fanny Hill: essays on the novel and its influences. AMS studies in the eighteenth century. Vol. 41. AMS Press. p. 169. ISBN 0-404-63541-5.
2. Binhammer, Katherine (2003). "The "Singular Propensity" of Sensibility's Extremities: Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 9: 471–498. doi:10.1215/10642684-9-4-471. S2CID 144739362.
3. Rachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books", Modernism/modernity, Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009, pp.87-104 doi:10.1353/mod.0.0065 [1]
4. Eliot, Simon (2000). "Hotten: Rotten: Forgotten? An Apologia for a General Publisher". Book History. 3: 61–93. doi:10.1353/bh.2000.0007. S2CID 159979222.
5. Prins, Yopie (1999). Victorian Sappho. Princeton University Press. p. 152. ISBN 0-691-05919-5.
6. Mudge, Bradford Keyes (2000). The whore's story: women, pornography, and the British novel, 1684-1830. Ideologies of desire. Oxford University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-19-513505-9.