George Reginald Bacchus (1874–1945) was an
English
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writer. He wrote a number of erotic books published by the
Erotika Biblion Society.
[James G. Nelson, Peter Mendes, ''Publisher to the decadents: Leonard Smithers in the careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson'', ]Penn State Press
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, 2000, , p.291
Life
He was the son of George Henry Bacchus of the
New South Wales Artillery and his wife Mary Constance Annie Woolley, daughter of
John Woolley. He was educated at
Clifton College
Clifton College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862 and offering both boarding school, boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18. In its early years, unlike mo ...
, and matriculated at
Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and the fourth-oldest college of the university.
The college was founde ...
in 1892.
Bacchus married
Isa Bowman
Isa Bowman (1874–1958) was an English people, actress, a close friend of Lewis Carroll and author of a memoir about his life, ''The Story of Lewis Carroll, Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland''.
She met Carroll in 1886 when ...
, a former child-actress and friend of
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglicanism, Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice ...
, in 1899. In 1899–1900 he published a fictionalised version of her life on the stage in ''Society'', a magazine he was editing.
[ ]Leonard Smithers
Leonard Charles Smithers (19 December 1861 – 19 December 1907) was a London bookseller and publisher associated with the Decadent movement of the late 19th century.
Biography
Born in Sheffield, England, Smithers worked as a solicitor after ...
commissioned a pornographic version which was published as ''The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt'' (issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906),[Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, ''Victorian scandals: representations of gender and class'', ]Ohio University Press
Ohio University Press (OUP) is a university press associated with Ohio University. Founded in 1947, it is the oldest and largest scholarly press in the state of Ohio. Ohio University Press is also a member of the Association of University Presses ...
, 1992, , pp.113,131 the first two volumes printed by Duringe of Paris and the last in London.[
]
References
External links
Text of The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (1902)
* Text of The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (1902) on Internet Archive.
1874 births
1945 deaths
English male writers
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