Fashionable Lectures

Fashionable Lectures: Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline was a pornographic book originally published in the 18th century and republished by John Camden Hotten as volume 7 of his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress around 1872 (falsely dated 1777).^[1][2] Hotten claimed to have found them in the library of Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) but Henry Spencer Ashbee claimed that they were in fact from his collection.^[3][4] The first edition was published around 1750^[5] and again with illustrations by William Holland in the 1780s.^[6]

Fashionable Lectures: Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline

The theme of the work is flagellation^[1] by dominant women in positions of authority.^[7] It promoted the names of ladies offering the service in a lecture room with rods and cat o' nine tails.^[8]