Donatien Alphonse marquis de Sade

In May 1861, he met Richard Monckton Milnes , who introduced him to the works of the marquis de Sade . Soon after this he met another important influence on his life, the explorer and...

Aside from her mother, Ouida kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth and William Tinsley ) A. C. Swinburne , Richard Monckton Milnes (famed for his large...

In his travels to promote the real, Desiderio is confronted with a circus, a tribe of river Indians, a Sade ian brothel containing automatons and androids, a society of centaurs, and finally the Gothic castle...

AC was a prolific writer in many genres throughout the later twentieth century. Best known for her novels and short stories, she also wrote plays (for radio, screen and stage), poetry, children's stories, journal articles...

In The Sadeian WomanAC explores the nature of pornography as expressed in the novels of the marquis de Sade , arguing that he presents portraits of the actual status of women in society.

In 1948 SB published her travel book L'Amérique au jour le jour, based on a diary she had kept while travelling around the country in 1947. This appeared in English in 1952 as America...

AC 's first non-fiction book was The Sade ian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History, a polemical exploration of pornography.