TY - BOOK AU - Manton,Richard TI - The victorian imagination--a sampler SN - 0394620747 (mass market paperback) U1 - 809.93353 M293T 1985 PY - 1985/// CY - New York PB - Grove Press Victorian Library KW - Pride literature history and criticism KW - Mental illness literature history and criticism KW - Personal beauty literature history and criticism N2 - 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," "The 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 ER -