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The Boudoir: A Magazine of Scandal, Facetiae etc. was an erotic magazine published in London [1] in the 1880s by William Lazenby. It was a continuation of The Pearl [2] and existed between 1883 and 1884. [3]

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References

  1. William S. Ward (5 February 2015). Index and Finding List of Serials Published in the British Isles, 1789--1832. University Press of Kentucky. p. 18. ISBN   978-0-8131-6487-8 . Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  2. Rachel Potter, "Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books", Modernism/modernity , Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009, pp. 87-104 doi : 10.1353/mod.0.0065
  3. Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. p. 351. ISBN   978-90-382-1340-8 . Retrieved 29 March 2020.

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