Exhibition of Female Flagellants is an 1830 pornographic novel published in London by George Cannon and attributed—probably falsely—to the Regency dominatrix Theresa Berkley. Its main activity is flagellation, chiefly women whipping women, written in a theatrical, fetishistic style.
Publication History
Cannon issued the book in London’s erotic-print underground; Berkley’s name (already tied to professional female flagellation and the Berkley Horse) was marketing more than proven authorship. Around 1872, John Camden Hotten republished it in The Library Illustrative of Social Progress, again under Berkley’s name. Related topics: Theresa Berkley, female flagellation erotica, and Victorian “social progress” reprints of whipping fiction.
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