Overview

The Convent School Restored Edition Black Fern Step behind the locked doors of a fin-de-siècle convent and into a world where discipline, devotion, and desire are exquisitely entwined. First published in late-Victorian London and long whispered about rather than openly named, The Convent School; or, Early Experiences of a Young Flagellant stands as one of the most notorious flagellation classics of its era. Written under the pseudonym Rosa Belinda Coote and privately printed for select readers, it helped shape an entire strand of sado-masochistic literature that still fascinates today. At its center is Lucille, an aristocratic narrator whose ""education"" leads her from household correction to the cloistered regime of a convent school, where ritual, obedience, and the language of the rod become a charged theatre of power and awakening. Through her eyes, readers enter a world in which authority is absolute, transgression is carefully staged, and punishment becomes the key that unlocks forbidden longings. This Restored Erotic Library Edition from Black Fern includes: The complete, unexpurgated Victorian text, newly reset and carefully proofed Twenty original period illustrations that intensify the mood of secrecy, control, and sensuality A new foreword by Dante Remy, placing The Convent School among the essential underground classics of Victorian BDSM and flagellation fiction Perfect for collectors of historical erotica, Victorian underground literature, and BDSM-themed classics, The Convent School: The Restored Edition is both a provocative reading experience and a beautifully produced volume for your erotic library.

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Reviews

""Not for the timid, but for the serious student of erotic letters, The Convent School is nothing short of indispensable."" - The London Review of Private Editions, 1901 ""To call it scandalous is insufficient; it is artful in its scandal, and therein lies its lasting danger."" - The Vienna Quarterly of Forbidden Letters, 1904 ""A jewel of Victorian flagellant fiction-sensitively restored, beautifully produced, and unapologetically erotic."" - Erotic Review Online ""Black Fern's edition of The Convent School is the definitive text: clean, complete, and enriched by a sharp, insightful foreword."" - Journal of Historical Erotica

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Dante Remy, editor and forward, is an internationally-based writer, editor, and producer. His creative work explores the duality of nature and science, love and loss, beauty and the macabre, the chaste and the erotic. Fiction publications include the Erosetti Pillow Book series, multiple edited art books, restored editions of classic erotica, and the novels ""The Mysteries"", ""Carmilla, My Love"", and the ""Lover, Predator, Vampire"" series. HIs comprehensive portfolio can be explored at danteremy.com. Elisabeth ""Rosa"" Coote is believed to be the true author of books written under the name ""Rosa Belinda Coote"" and published by William Dugdale. Further, newly discovered manuscript and letters in the remote Sicilian village of Monteconvento affirms that Elisabeth ""Rosa"" Coote was a living writer at the time of publication of The Convent School. This new novella from the author, ""The Mysteries: I Misteri del Convento"" is published by Black Fern and Erosetti Press and a must read for lovers of the Victorian erotic genre. Traditionally, ""Rosa Belinda Coote"" is known as a pseudonym for a fictional dominatrix appearing as a stock character in a number of works of Victorian erotica, including The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant (as the notional author) by William Dugdale (now disproven) and ""Letters to a Lady Friend"" or ""Miss Coote's Confession"" in The Pearl. Henry Spencer Ashbee, the Victorian collector and historian of erotica wrote "" The Convent School is not altogether badly written; it advances the notion that pleasure may come from pain. And yet, we hope to read future works that describe a remote Sicilian convent.""

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