Books by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“The horsewhipping scene in this book skates the line between rage and erotic rage. It’s done really well, so as to signal eroticism without it being explicit.” Read more...
The best books on Sex in Victorian Literature
Claire Jarvis, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Mary Elizabeth Braddon were recommended
The best books on Sex in Victorian Literature, recommended by Claire Jarvis
We often assume the Victorians had puritanical attitudes to sex, but this was far from the reality. From familiar classics to neglected gems, Claire Jarvis—Stanford academic and author of Exquisite Masochism: Sex, Marriage and the Novel Form—selects the best books on sex in Victorian literature.
