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The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant is a 19th-century work of sado-masochistic pornography, written under the pseudonym Rosa Coote and published by William Dugdale in London in 1876. Henry Spencer Ashbee catalogues it with the comment that “the numerous flagellations, supplemented by filthy tortures, are insuperably tedious and revolting”. The principal character and ostensible author Rosa Coote also appears in a series of related stories in The Pearl magazine.
References
Pisanus Fraxi, Catena Librorum Tacendorum III, 1885, p. 246
Iwan Bloch, William H Forstern, Sexual Life in England, past and present, F. Aldor, 1938, p. 361
Fernando Henriques, Prostitution and Society; a survey, MacGibbon & Kee, 1962, p. 245
Barbara Kanner, Women in English Social History 1800-1914. vol. 2, Garland Publ., 1988, ISBN 0-8240-9168-X, p. 540
External links
The full text of The Convent School at Wikisource
