''The Cremorne'' was a

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magazine published by

William Lazenby William Lazenby (died c. 1888) was an English publisher of pornography active in the 1870s and 1880s. He used the aliases Duncan Cameron and Thomas Judd. His notable publications include magazines '' The Pearl'', which published poems thought to h ...

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in 1882 (but falsely backdated to 1851).Rachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books", ''

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'', Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009, pp.87-104 The title alludes to Cremorne Gardens which had by that time become a haunt of

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s. The magazine was a sequel to '' The Pearl''. The story "The Secret Life of Linda Brent" is an obscene parody of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", by

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writing under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. It is in the same vein as "My Grandmother's Tale", previously published in ''The Pearl''.

References

* Paul Giles, "Atlantic republic: the American tradition in English literature", Oxford University Press, 2006, , p.149 * Michael Matthew Kaylor, "Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde", Michael Matthew Kaylor, 2006, , p.15 * Lisa Z. Sigel, "International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000", Rutgers University Press, 2005, , p.64,73-74 Erotica magazines published in the United Kingdom Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1882 Magazines with year of disestablishment missing Magazines published in London {{porn-mag-stub