''The Victim of Lust, or Scenes in the Life of Rosa Fielding'' is an anonymously written Victorian pornographic novel published by

William Dugdale Sir William Dugdale (12 September 1605 – 10 February 1686) was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject. Life Dugdale was born at Shustoke, near Coleshi ...

in 1867. In the third volume of his bibliographic trilogy on erotic books, Catena Librorum Tacendorum, after giving a one-page summary of the novel,

Henry Spencer Ashbee Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900)(Walter) was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer. He is notable for his massive, clandestine three-volume bibliography of erotic literature published under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi ...

concludes that "The book is very obscene, and possesses no literary merit whatever." Gordon Grimley, in ''Wicked Victorians: an anthology of clandestine literature of the nineteenth century'', called Dugdale ''"the most notorious of publisher/booksellers of pornography of his time."'' An excerpt is contained in the anthology ''Erotic tales of the Victorian Age''. According to Alfred Rose's ''Register of erotic books'', the book is 135 pages long, illustrated, with coloured engravings.

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