"oral sex" among the Victorians
George Thompson
george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Wed Jan 4 20:03:48 UTC 2006
I didn't make myself clear here. Horly's diary is the source of the
attribution of the album to Carroll/Dodgson.
GAT
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
----- Original Message -----
From: sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
Date: Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:46 pm
Subject: Re: "oral sex" among the Victorians
> From GAT:
> >.........The book includes reproductions of 8 or 10 pages of a
> remarkable>album
> >purportedly given in 1882 as a wedding present to "Christine Horly",
> >an English prostitute, by Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson). The book
> >cites a diary kept by Horly as the source of Carroll's
> name,...........<~~~~~~~~~
> I wonder what is meant by "source"? Surely Charles Lutwidge is the
> _source_ of "Lewis Carroll." Did he or did she translate it?
> Curiouser & curiouser........
> A. Murie
>
> ~@:> ~@:> ~@:> ~@:>
>
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