Fashionable Lectures

{{short description|1750 English pornographic book}} {{italic title}} thumb|Fashionable Lectures: Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline '''''Fashionable Lectures: Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline''''' was a pornographic book originally published in the 18th century and republished by John Camden Hotten as volume 7 of his series ''The Library Illustrative of Social Progress'' around 1872 (falsely dated 1777).<ref name=ashbee257>Ashbee (1877) pp.257-258</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700, Volume 1 | first=Robert | last=Hoe | publisher=BiblioBazaar | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-554-42753-9 | page=92 }}</ref> Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee claimed that they were in fact from his collection.<ref name=ashbee241>Ashbee (1877) pp.240-241</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Sexual life in England, past and present | first=Iwan | last=Bloch | authorlink=Iwan Bloch | publisher=F. Aldor | year=1938 }}</ref> The first edition was published around 1750<ref>{{cite book | title=In praise of the whip: a cultural history of arousal | first1=Niklaus | last1=Largier | first2=Graham | last2=Harman | publisher=Zone Books | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-890951-65-8 | page=339 }}</ref> and again with illustrations by William Holland in the 1780s.<ref>{{cite book | title=Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790s | last=Alexander | first=David S. | publisher=Manchester University Press | year=1998 | isbn=0-7190-5480-X | page=116}}</ref>

The theme of the work is flagellation<ref name=ashbee257/> by dominant women in positions of authority.<ref>{{cite book | title=A long time burning | first=Donald | last=Thomas | authorlink=Donald Serrell Thomas | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=1969 | page=278 }}</ref> It promoted the names of ladies offering the service in a lecture room with rods and cat o' nine tails.<ref>''Fashionable Lectures Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline'' (c1761) British Library Rare Books collection</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} ;Sources * {{cite book | title=Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono- graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books | place=London | publisher=privately printed | year=1877 | first=Henry Spencer | last=Ashbee | authorlink=Pisanus Fraxi }}

==External links== * {{cite book |last1=Buckle |first1=Henry Thomas |title=Fashionable Lectures (1926) |date=1782 |url=https://archive.org/details/fashionable-lectures }} (book at archive.org)

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