Coverpage of a catalogue of books published by Charles Carrington (Paris, 1906)
Coverpage of a catalogue of books published by Charles Carrington (Paris, 1906)

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[1] where he published and sold books in the rue Faubourg Montmartre and rue de Chateaudun; for a short period he moved his activities to Brussels. Carrington also published works of classical literature, including the first English translation of Aristophanes' "Comedies," and books by famous authors such as Oscar Wilde and Anatole France, in order to hide his "undercover" erotica publications under a veil of legitimacy. His books featured the erotic art of Martin van Maële. He published a French series La Flagellation a Travers le Monde mainly on English flagellation, identifying it as an English predilection.[2]

Carrington went blind as a result of syphilis and the last few years of his life were spent in poverty as his mistress stole his valuable collection of rare books. He was placed in a lunatic asylum and died in 1921 at Ivry-sur-Seine, France.

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Deana Heath (2010). Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia. Cambridge University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-521-19435-8.
  2. ^ Sigel, Lisa Z. (2005). International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000. Rutgers University Press. p. 89. ISBN 0-8135-3519-0.
  3. ^ White, Chris (2003). "(Not) Dying of Shame: Female Sexual Submission in 1890s' Erotica". Critical Survey. 15 (3). doi:10.3167/001115703782153439.
  4. ^ Weinberg, Thomas S.; Kamel, G. W. Levi (1983). SandM, studies in sadomasochism. New concepts in human sexuality. Prometheus Books. p. 139. ISBN 0-87975-218-1.
  5. ^ a b Ashbee, Henry Spencer (1877). Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono- graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books. London: privately printed. pp. 246–251.
  6. ^ Rosset, Barney; Jordan, Fred, eds. (1984). Evergreen review. Vol. 98. Grove Press. p. 117. ISBN 0-394-62001-1.
  7. ^ Potter (2009)
  8. ^ Harald Leupold-Löwenthal, Ein unmöglicher Beruf: über die schöne Kunst, ein Analytiker zu sein Arbeiten zur Psychoanalyse, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1997, ISBN 3-205-98412-9, p.153
  9. ^ Sabbah, Fatna A. Women in the Muslim Unconscious. Translated by Mary Jo Lakeland. New York: Pergamon Press, 1995, ISBN 0080316255, p. 23.
  10. ^ Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran, "Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909" (Volume 2 of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Jessica M. Moran) Emma Goldman Series, University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0-520-22569-4, p.514
  11. ^ Lisa Z. Sigel, "International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000", Rutgers University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8135-3519-0, p.98
  12. ^ Joseph W. Slade, "Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN 0-313-31519-1, p.55
  13. ^ Edward Shorter, Written in the flesh: a history of desire, University of Toronto Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8020-3843-3, pp.208,290
  14. ^ Boroughs, Rod, "Oscar Wilde's Translation of Petronius: The Story of a Literary Hoax", English Literature in Transition (ELT) 1880-1920, vol. 38, nr. 1 (1995) pages 9-49.
  15. ^ Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers, La torture à travers les âges, Éditions de l'idée libre, 1956, p.55
  16. ^ Donald Serrell Thomas, Swinburne, the poet in his world, Oxford University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-19-520136-1, p.216
  17. ^ Patrick J. Kearney, "The Private Case: an annotated bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library", J. Landesman, 1981, p.215
  18. ^ Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Indiana University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-253-33411-X, p.805

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