''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 Diversities in the Conformation of the Female Bottom and the Way Different Women Endure Chastisement'' is a

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novel published in London in 1899 under the

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Jean de Villiot, probably

Hugues Rebell Georges Grassal de Choffat or Hugues Rebell (27 October 1867 in Nantes – 6 March 1905 in Paris) was a French people, French author. He wrote against Christianity and professed paganism while remaining a Catholic. An exponent of Friedrich Nietzsc ...

Charles Carrington Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...

who published the work. Another edition was published in

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in 1904. The book relates the misadventures of

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Dolly Morton and her companion Miss Dove who venture into the

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to help with an

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. They are captured by a

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mob,

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and made to ride the rail, and Dolly Morton is forced to be the mistress of a plantation owner. The book is written as the memoirs of Dolly Morton after she has become a

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. It has been suggested that it may have been an influence on James Joyce's novel ''

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* Lisa Z. Sigel, ''International Exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000'', Rutgers University Press, 2005, , p. 86-89, 98 *

Donald Serrell Thomas Donald Serrell Thomas (18 July 1934 – 20 January 2022) was a British crime writer. His work primarily included Victorian-era historical, crime and detective fiction, as well as books on factual crime and criminals, in particular several academ ...

, ''A Long Time Burning: the history of literary censorship in England'', Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969, p. 314 1899 British novels British erotic novels Pornographic novels Works published under a pseudonym BDSM literature {{bdsm-stub