George Reginald Bacchus
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George Reginald Bacchus (1874–1945) was an English writer. He wrote a number of erotic books published by the Erotika Biblion Society.Patrick J. Kearney, A history of erotic literature, Parragon, 1982, {{ISBN|1-85813-198-7}}, pp.153-154,181James G. Nelson, Peter Mendes, Publisher to the decadents: Leonard Smithers in the careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Penn State Press, 2000, {{ISBN|0-271-01974-3}}, 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.{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur Charles|title=Armorial Families|edition=7th|year=1929–30|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|location=London|page=67|volume=1}} He was educated at Clifton College, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1892.{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=Oxford Men, 1880-1892, with a record of their schools, honours and degrees. Illustrated with portraits and views |date=1893 |publisher=J. Parker |location=Oxford |page=column 25 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordmen188018900fostuoft/page/n43/mode/2up}}
Bacchus married Isa Bowman, a former child-actress and friend of Lewis Carroll, in 1899.Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green, The Letters of Lewis Carroll: 1886-1898, Volume 2 of The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Macmillan, 1979, {{ISBN|0-333-24283-1}}, p.710 In 1899–1900 he published a fictionalised version of her life on the stage in Society, a magazine he was editing. Leonard Smithers commissioned a pornographic version which was published as The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906),Frank A. Hoffmann, Analytical survey of Anglo-American traditional erotica, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1973, {{ISBN|0-87972-055-7}}, p.34Tracy C. Davis, "The Actress in Victorian Pornography", Theatre Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, Performance in Context (Oct., 1989), pp. 294-315 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3208182]{{cite book | title=Actresses as working women: their social identity in Victorian culture | series=Gender and performance | first=Tracy C. | last=Davis | publisher=Routledge | year=1991 | isbn=0-415-05652-7 | pages=145, 180, 183}}Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, Victorian scandals: representations of gender and class, Ohio University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-8214-1019-9}}, pp.113,131 the first two volumes printed by Duringe of Paris and the last in London.
References
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External links
- [https://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1900s/1902-1906_the_confessions_of_nemesis_hunt_(HCs)/index.htm Text of The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (1902)]
- Text of The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (1902) on Internet Archive.
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