The Cremorne

For the public house, see The Cremorne, Sheffield.

The Cremorne was a pornographic magazine published by William Lazenby in London in 1882 (but falsely backdated to 1851).^[1] The title alludes to Cremorne Gardens which had by that time become a haunt of prostitutes. The magazine was a sequel to The Pearl.^[2] The Cremorne folded in 1882.^[2]

The Cremorne

Categories	Pornographic magazine
First issue	1882
Final issue	1882
Company	William Lazenby
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The story "The Secret Life of Linda Brent" is an obscene parody of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", by Harriet Jacobs writing under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. It is in the same vein as "My Grandmother's Tale", previously published in The Pearl.

References

1. Rachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books", Modernism/modernity, Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009, pp.87-104 doi:10.1353/mod.0.0065
2. Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor, eds. (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. London: Academia Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.

Further reading

• Paul Giles, "Atlantic republic: the American tradition in English literature", Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-920633-3, p.149
• Michael Matthew Kaylor, "Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde", Michael Matthew Kaylor, 2006, ISBN 80-210-4126-9, p.15
• Lisa Z. Sigel, "International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000", Rutgers University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8135-3519-0, p.64,73-74