Overview

In this fascinating story of Victorian pornography, repression and subverted desire, acclaimed biographer Ian Gibson has created an engrossing portrait of the prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman, Henry Spencer Ashbee, who led a secret life of his own.

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'Here is the lust that dare not speak its name: Victoria may not have been amused; but I guarantee that you'll be.' Sunday Express '[A] gripping, finely researched jewel of a book.' Sunday Times

Author Information

Ian Gibson's celebrated biography Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His biography of Salvador Dali was published in 1997 to much critical acclaim. He lives near Granada in southern Spain.

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