The Victorian ImaginationA Sampler Author:Richard Manton Collected for the first time in one volume are these excerpts from the masterpieces of Victorian erotic literature. Assembled here are some of the best-known underground favorites: "My Secret Life," "A Man with a Maid," "Suburban Souls," and "Eveline." Also included are several of the newly-discovered Victorian gems: "Birch in the Budoir," "Th... more »e Amorous Adventures of Capt. Charles De Vane," "Beatrice," and "The Days at Florville." All attest to the daring, ebullience, and voluptuousness of the Victorians' hidden sexual lives, both real and imagined.« less