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On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy and Hysteria in Females Isaac Baker Brown As the title of this book implies, I do not intend to occupy the attention of my readers with all the numerous varieties of insanity and other nervous disorders to which females are liable, but onl

The MermaidAlfed TennysonI   Who would be A mermaid fair, Singing alone, Combing her hair Under the sea, In a golden curl With a comb of pearl,

The Elements of Social Science; Or, Physical, Sexual, and Natural ReligionG. R. DrysdaleThere is a great deal of erroneous feeling attached to the subject of the sexual desires in woman.

CarmillaJoseph Sheridan Le FanuSometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid a

LOUISA VINCENT, Breaking Peace > wounding, 25th October 1847. 2490. LOUISA VINCENT was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Thomas Soarston, on the left side of his head, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.

Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy‘But you haven't answered me. Will you let me go away? I know how irregular it is of me to ask it—’ ‘It is irregular.’

The Diaries of Anne Lister Anne Lister Monday 20 Sept.

The Bride's PreludeDante Gabriel Rossetti“Sister,” said busy Amelotte  To listless Aloÿse;  “Along your wedding-road the wheat  Bends as to hear your horse's feet, 

Whitechapel Murders"Whitechapel Murders." The Illustrated Police News [London] 22 Sept. 1888: No.1,284. Print.

Dear Boss LetterAnonymous (as Jack the Ripper)Dear Boss,

Lecture II. A Mock Salvation and a Real Deliverance from SinCatherine (Mumford) Booth   

The Sunlight Lay Across My BedOlive SchreinerBirds sang, turf came to the water-edge, and trees grew from it. Away off among the trees I saw beautiful women walking.

The Daughters of DanausMona Caird“Our standards are all changing,” said Miss Du Prel. “It does not follow that they are changing for the worse.”

The Journal of Emily PepysEmily Pepys  Thursday, 25th July.

The Naked GoddessJames ThomsonFour broad beech-trees great of hold, Crowned the green, smooth-swelling knoll; There She stood, the glorious form Dazzling with its beauty warm;

"Jenny"Dante Gabriel Rossetti     Like a rose shut in a book  In which pure women may not look,  For its base pages claim control 

My Secret Life Anonymous Some years have passed away since I penned the foregoing, and it is not printed.

The Terrible Scandals in “High Life.” We are exceedingly glad that the horrible scandal which Reynolds’s Newspaper was the first to bring under the notice of the general public has at last come more prominently forward throug

Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual InversionHavelock EllisWestphal, an eminent professor of psychiatry at Berlin, may be said to have been the first to put the study of sexual inversion on an assured scientific basis.

In Memoriam H.R.F. Samuel Butler   Out, out, out into the night, With the wind bitter north-east and the sea rough; You have a racking cough and your lungs are weak,

Jane Eyre, An AutobiographyCharlotte Bronte     "I tell you I must go!" I retorted, roused to something like passion. "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?

Salomé: A Tragedy in One ActAubrey Beardsley & Oscar WildeTHE VOICE OF SALOME: Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Iokannan, I  have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was

Studies in the Psychology of SexHavelock EllisThe analysis of these cases leads directly up to a question of the first importance: What is sexual inversion?

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction: with Some Account of the judicial “congress” as practised in France during the seventeenth centuryJohn DavenportAs an erotic stimulant, more particularly, it may be observed that, considering the many intimate and sympathetic relations existing between the nervous branches of the extremity of the spinal marr

To George Sand. A Desire.Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTHOU large-brained woman and large-hearted man, Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions Of thy tumultuous senses, moans defiance

Lover's SilenceAgnes Mary Frances Robinson                                                        L

What Cannot BeIn this poem, John Addington Symonds describes the painful feeling of unrequited and unaccepted love.