{"product_id":"9780987095619","title":"Experimental Lecture by Colonel Spanker","description":"In the assembly-room of the Society of Aristocratic Flagellants, Mayfair, Colonel Spanker strives to confirm his thesis that the punishment of a refined young lady produces more exquisite pleasures than flogging lower-class women and prostitutes...\u003cp\u003eExperimental Lecture by Colonel Spanker is one of the most notorious nineteenth-century English flagellant novels. Henry Spencer Ashbee's Catena Librorum Tacendorum describes it as 'the most coldly cruel and unblushingly indecent of any we have ever read, [it] stands entirely alone in the English language.' (Fraxi, 1885: 250) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of Experimental Lecture also includes the full text of The Yellow Room or, Alice Darvell's Subjection, a late Victorian novella focusing on the delights of birching and the pleasures of cruelty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the death of her aunt, beautiful Alice Darvell is sent to live with Sir Edward Bosmere, a stern disciplinarian and devotee of Venus Callipyge, who initiates her into the mysteries of the rod. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Yellow Room was first published in 1891. The name of the author, M. Le Comte du Bouleau, is a pseudonym. Authorship is attributed to an English lawyer, Stanislas Matthew de Rhodès (1857-1932). He is also credited with writing Gynecocracy (1893) and The Petticoat Dominant (1898), which are available from Birchgrove Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birchgrove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035749335280,"sku":"9780987095619","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780987095619_p0.jpg?v=1763890929","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780987095619","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}