Lesbia Brandon

Lesbia Brandon is a pornographic novel by Algernon Charles Swinburne, written between 1859 and 1868 and published posthumously. It was illustrated by Simeon Solomon.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Peter Horne, Reina Lewis, "Outlooks: lesbian and gay sexualities and visual cultures", Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-12468-9, p.70
Notes
  • George Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman, "Encyclopedia of lesbian and gay histories and cultures, Volume 1", Taylor & Francis, 2000, ISBN 0-8153-1920-7, p.263
  • Jeremy Mitchell, "Swinburne - The Disappointed Protagonist", Yale French Studies, No. 35, The House of Sade (1965), pp.81-88
  • Yopie Prins, "Victorian Sappho", Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-05919-5, pp.123-125
  • Arthur Symons, "Dramatis personae", Ayer Publishing, 1971, ISBN 0-8369-2177-1, p.251
  • John Vincent, "Flogging is fundamental: applications of birching in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon", in "Novel gazing: queer readings in fiction" (ed. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick), Duke University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8223-2040-1, pp.269-298


I am rereading the 1952 publication of Lesbia Brandon. The ides that it is pornographic is ludicrous, although I see why the Victorians would have thought so! Aidan Kelly

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