To the Reader,Very little apology will be needed for putting in print the following highly erotic and racy narrative of a young patrician lady, whose adventures I feel assured every genuine lover of voluptuous reading will derive as much or more pleasure afforded your humble servant.The subject of these memoirs was one of the brightest and most charming of her sex, endued with such exquisite nervous sensitiveness, in addition to an unusual warmth of constitution that she was quite unable to resist the seductive influences of God’s finest creation; for God made man in his own image, male and female, created he them; and this was the first commandment, Be faithful and multiply, and replenish the earth–see Genesis, chap. 1.Lady Pokingham was first appeared in ‘The Pearl’, a Journal of Facetiæ and Voluptuous Reading that was published from 1879-1881.This is the first part of this classic of Victorian Erotica
