The Pearl (PocketBook)

The full text of all issues of the underground magazine of Victorian England.

The pearl made its debut in London. In July 1879, the self-proclaimed journal of unblushing erotica for every taste. It flourished on the subterranean market until December 1880, when it vanished as mysteriously as it had appeared. Included in the eighteen issues were six serialized novels that are standards of the black  literature of the time ("Lady Pokingham, or They  all do it ," "Miss Coote's confession etc.) as well as the meatiest limericks then current, parodies of Robert Burns Merry Muses, ballads of epic sexual adventures, countless ditties, witticisms, jokes, letter from "readers". and a potpourri of the scatological and scandalous gossip of the day.