In his "Bibliography of Prohibited Books" (1885), Henry Ashbee, the
noted Victorian collector of erotic literature, described "Letters
from Laura and Eveline" as follows:
"There is a boldness in the idea upon which are based the two
letters comprised in this volume, which, in spite of its
monstrosity, might, with an abler and more delicate treatment, have
lent itself to the creation of an attractive narrative. Conceptions
equally impossible and contrary to the laws of nature have been
productive of readable stories. Laura and Eveline are
hermaphrodites, capable of enjoyment both active and passive, and
they recount the incidents of their weddings, which take place
simultaneously. ...] After these details, as disgusting as they are
absurd, follows the description of an orgie, still more filthy and
impossible, enacted by numerous ladies and gentlemen, at a London
club, in honour of the said nuptials. The work, which is from the
pen of its publisher, is mainly remarkable for its gross obscenity
both in idea and language, and possesses no literary merit
whatever."
"Letters from Laura and Eveline" was first published in 1883 and
was marketed as an "appendix" to the better-known "The Sins of the
Cities of the Plain" (1881). Inspired in part by the real-life case
of Boulton and Park, two young men whose cross-dressing led to
their prosecution for sodomy in London in 1871, this text is, as
Justin O'Hearn argues in his introduction to this edition, a
fascinating example of the erotic literature that was clandestinely
published in the late Victorian era. This edition reprints the only
example of the book known to exist, the copy of the 1903 edition
held by the British Library, and features an appendix containing
rare contextual materials and illustrations.
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