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Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British

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in late-19th- and early-20th-century

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. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in

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on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to

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where he published and sold books in the rue Faubourg Montmartre and rue de Chateaudun; for a short period he moved his activities to

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. Carrington also published works of classical literature, including the first English translation of Aristophanes' "Comedies," and books by famous authors such as

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and

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, in order to hide his "undercover" erotica publications under a veil of legitimacy. His books featured the erotic art of Martin van Maële. He published a French series ''La Flagellation a Travers le Monde'' mainly on English

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, identifying it as an English predilection. Carrington went blind as a result of

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and the last few years of his life were spent in poverty as his mistress stole his valuable collection of rare books. He was placed in a lunatic asylum and died in 1921 at

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Selected publications

*'' Experimental Lecture'' (1878) by the pseudonym "Colonel Spanker" for the "Cosmopolitan Society of Bibliophiles", one of his imprints. The Colonel and his circle have a house in

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where genteel young ladies are kidnapped, humiliated, and flagellated. *'' Raped on the Railway: a True Story of a Lady who was first ravished and then flagellated on the Scotch Express'' (1894) by Anonymous for the "Cosmopolitan Bibliophile Society".Potter (2009)Harald Leupold-Löwenthal, ''Ein unmöglicher Beruf: über die schöne Kunst, ein Analytiker zu sein Arbeiten zur Psychoanalyse'', Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1997, , p.153 *''The Loves of a Musical Student - being the History of the Adventures and Amorous Intrigues of a Young Rake'' (1897) by Anonymous. *''Memoirs of Private Flagellation'' (1899) by Anonymous (Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles Français et Étrangers). *''The Old Man Young Again or Age-Rejuvenescence in the Power of Concupiscence'' (1898) translated to English from the original Arabic. The Arabic text was written by

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The Memoirs of Dolly Morton ''The Memoirs of Dolly Morton: The Story of A Woman's Part in the Struggle to Free the Slaves, An Account of the Whippings, Rapes, and Violences that Preceded the Civil War in America, with Curious Anthropological Observations on the Radical Div ...

'' (1899) by Anonymous (generally attributed to Jean de Villiot, aka

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). Edited and published in London and Paris by Charles Carrington. *''Nell in Bridewell'' (1900) by Wilhelm Reinhard (Paris, Society of British Bibliophiles arrington, translated to English from the original German ''Lenchen im Zuchthause (Lenchen in jail)'' (1840). Also published in French as ''La Flagellation des femmes en Allemagne'' (1901). *''The Magnetism of the Rod or the Revelations of Miss Darcy'' (1902). A reprint of ''

The Romance of Chastisement ''The Romance of Chastisement'' is a Victorian pornographic collection on the theme of flagellation by St George Stock (a probable pseudonym, also credited with ''The Whippingham Papers'') and published by John Camden Hotten in 1866. It was repri ...

'' (1866) by St. George H. Stock. *''Le Fouet à Londres'' (''The Whip in London'') (1902), Published in Paris by Charles Carrington as part of the series ''La Flagellation a Travers le Monde''. *''The Satyricon of Petronius, a new translation'' (1902) the translating originally ascribed by Carrington to

(who had died two years earlier), later (1930) attributed to Alfred Richard Allinson. *''Femmes Chatiees'' (1903) by Jean de Villiot. French translation of Charles Carrington's ''Whipped Women'' short stories; original manuscript published in 1994. *''Woman and Her Master'' (1904) by Jean de Villiot, pseudonym of

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. Flagellation erotica translated into English by Charles Carrington from the original 1902 French edition, ''La Femme et son maître''. *''La Flagellation amoureuse'' (1904) by Jean de Villiot, pseudonym of Georges Grassal. *''Le Fouet au Harem'' (1906) by Jean de Villiot, pseudonym of Georges Grassal. *''The Beautiful Flagellants of New York'' (1907) by Lord Drialys (The Society of British Bibliophiles

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Paris). *''Clic! Clac! Précédé d'un conte "Home-Discipline"'' (1907) by Jean de Villiot (Librairie des Bibliophiles Parisiens

. *'' Sadopaideia: Being the Experiences of Cecil Prendergast Undergraduate of the University of Oxford Shewing How he was Led Through the Pleasant Paths of Masochism to the Supreme joys of Sadism'' (1907), anonymous, possibly by

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References

Sources

* Sarah Bull. "A Purveyor of Garbage? Charles Carrington and the Marketing of Sexual Science in Late-Victorian Britain." ''Victorian Review'' 38.1 (Spring 2012): 55–76. * Colligan, Colette
''A Publisher's Paradise: Expatriate Literary Culture in Paris, 1890–1960''
University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. * Mendes, Peter. "Clandestine Erotic Fiction in England 1800-1930". England: Scolar Press, 1993. * Straight, Sheryl. "The Erotica Bibliophile

* Paul Douglas, "Charles Carrington and the Commerce of the Risque"
The International Journal of the Book
Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 63–76. * Thierry Rodange, "Le diable entre au confessional: biographie de Hugues Rebell", Alteredit, 2002, , pp. 236,301,319 * Rachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books", ''

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'', Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009, pp. 87–104 * Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran, "Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909" (Volume 2 of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Jessica M. Moran) Emma Goldman Series, University of California Press, 2004, , pp. 513–514 * * Forbidden Books: Notes and Gossip on Tabooed Literature / by an old Bibliophile (1902, ) reprinted 2017 by Facsimile Publisher, Delhi India (distributed by Gyan Books, New Delhi India)

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