The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality

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Ronald Pearsall is an irresistibly readable writer as well as an assiduous researcher. His book is full of marvelous anecdotes and stories of the famous and infamous, and is both very funny and very shocking..." - Book jacket.

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