The Oyster

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The Oyster was an erotic magazine published in London from 1883[ citation needed ] by William Lazenby.[ citation needed ] It was a continuation of The Pearl . [1] Unlike its predecessor, the emphasis was mainly on heterosexual pornography. [2] It may have ceased publication in 1896. [3]

Graham Grafton wrote in the preface to an anthology of writing from the magazine, "Since the rediscovery of The Oyster in the mid 1980s, there has been much speculation as to just who were the authors of this infamous Victorian underground magazine". [4] He says that previous researchers have suggested a pulp-fiction writer, Gerald Burdett, as one of the contributors. [4] Grafton adds a doctor, Edward Parsifal, as a possibility. [4] Grafton describes the magazine as "a journal that flourished throughout the 1880s, only to disappear without trace during the next decade". [4]

References

  1. ↑ McCormick, Donald; Deacon, Richard (1992). Erotic literature: a connoisseur's guide. Continuum. p. 61. ISBN   0-8264-0574-6.
  2. ↑ Hall, Donald Eugene; Pramaggiore, Maria (1996). Representing Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire. NYU Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN   0-8147-6634-X.
  3. ↑ The six volumes of selections from the magazine published by New English Library — The Oyster 1, The Oyster 2, and so on (1985–1996) — give different termination dates in different places, but 1896 is the one most frequently cited. The selections include letters to the editor dated between 1885 and 1895.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Graham Grafton (1988). "Preface". The Oyster: Volume 3, Including the Life and Lays of Dr Teddy Parsifal. New English Library, Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN   045048906X.


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