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.

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


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