George Reginald Bacchus

George Reginald Bacchus (1874–1945) was an English writer. He wrote a number of erotic books published by the Erotika Biblion Society.[1][2]

Life

He was the son of George Henry Bacchus of the New South Wales Artillery and his wife Mary Constance Annie Woolley, daughter of John Woolley.[3] He was educated at Clifton College, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1892.[4]

Bacchus married Isa Bowman, a former child-actress and friend of Lewis Carroll, in 1899.[5] In 1899–1900 he published a fictionalised version of her life on the stage in Society, a magazine he was editing.[2] Leonard Smithers commissioned a pornographic version which was published as The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906),[6][7][8][9] the first two volumes printed by Duringe of Paris and the last in London.[2]

References

  1. ^ Patrick J. Kearney, A history of erotic literature, Parragon, 1982, ISBN 1-85813-198-7, pp.153-154,181
  2. ^ a b c James G. Nelson, Peter Mendes, Publisher to the decadents: Leonard Smithers in the careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Penn State Press, 2000, ISBN 0-271-01974-3, p.291
  3. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families. Vol. 1 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 67.
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1893). Oxford Men, 1880-1892, with a record of their schools, honours and degrees. Illustrated with portraits and views. Oxford: J. Parker. p. column 25.
  5. ^ Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green, The Letters of Lewis Carroll: 1886-1898, Volume 2 of The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Macmillan, 1979, ISBN 0-333-24283-1, p.710
  6. ^ Frank A. Hoffmann, Analytical survey of Anglo-American traditional erotica, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1973, ISBN 0-87972-055-7, p.34
  7. ^ Tracy C. Davis, "The Actress in Victorian Pornography", Theatre Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, Performance in Context (Oct., 1989), pp. 294-315 [1]
  8. ^ Davis, Tracy C. (1991). Actresses as working women: their social identity in Victorian culture. Gender and performance. Routledge. pp. 145, 180, 183. ISBN 0-415-05652-7.
  9. ^ Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, Victorian scandals: representations of gender and class, Ohio University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-8214-1019-9, pp.113,131


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