Birchgrove Press presents, for the first time in one volume, new editions of two classic Victorian flagellant novels written and published by William Lazenby: The Convent School, or Early Experiences of a Young Flagellant and its companion volume, Miss Coote's Confession, or The Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid. In The Convent School, which was first published in 1879, a young countess recounts her merciless disciplinary experiences to a friend, Rosa Belinda Coote. In Miss Coote's Confession, which was first published in serial form in Lazenby's The Pearl: A Journal of Faceti and Voluptuous Reading (July 1879 to April 1880 issues), Rosa Coote relates the evolution of her passion for the whip.
Birchgrove Press presents, for the first time in one volume, new editions of two classic Victorian flagellant novels written and published by William Lazenby: The Convent School, or Early Experiences of a Young Flagellant and its companion volume, Miss Coote's Confession, or The Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid. In The Convent School, which was first published in 1879, a young countess recounts her merciless disciplinary experiences to a friend, Rosa Belinda Coote. In Miss Coote's Confession, which was first published in serial form in Lazenby's The Pearl: A Journal of Faceti and Voluptuous Reading (July 1879 to April 1880 issues), Rosa Coote relates the evolution of her passion for the whip.
