Suburban Souls

Suburban Souls: The Erotic Psychology of a Man and a Maid is an anonymous erotic novel in three volumes originally printed and published in Paris in one hundred and fifty copies in 1901 for distribution amongst private subscribers only. The book has been reprinted by Grove Press in the United States in 1968, 1979, and 1994,^[1] and in England by Wordsworth Classic in 1995 with an introduction by Richard Manton (pseudonym for the late British author Donald Thomas) and Barney Rosset, the former owner of the publishing house Grove Press.^[2]

Suburban Souls

Author	Anonymous (Jacky S--)
Language	English
Genre	Erotic literature
Published	1901
Publication place	France
Pages	304
OCLC	70710596

The book, which is considered a classic of the 20th century erotic fiction genre, was originally published by Charles Carrington, a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th and early 20th century Europe, and possibly written by him also under the pseudonym of Jacky S--.^[3] Slang lexicographer John S. Farmer has been suggested as another possible candidate for the book's real author.^[4]

References

1. Formats and Editions of Suburban souls; the erotic psychology of a man and a maid. WorldCat. OCLC 449375.
2. Formats and Editions of Suburban souls : the erotic psychology of a man and a maid. WorldCat. OCLC 34192816.
3. Cornog, Martha (1991). Libraries, Erotica, Pornography. Phoenix: Oryx Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-89774-474-4. OCLC 22347942.
4. Bullough, Vern L. (2000). "Who wrote My Secret Life? An evaluation of possibilities and a tentative suggestion". Sexuality and Culture. 4 (1): 37–60. doi:10.1007/s12119-000-1011-y. S2CID 144830385.

External links

• Suburban Souls at Open Library.
• Suburban Souls at Goodreads.
• Detailed review of the work by Richard Manton
• Dustjacket description of the work from the 1968 first modern reprint