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	Amazon.fr : The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee: Livres en anglais: Ian Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ashbee enjoyed an affluent 19th-century existence with wife and family, renting a separate apartment in which he stored his collection of thousands of erotic books and paraphernalia.
		As Gibson concedes at the end of his book, Ashbee is "sad--in, we assume, the traditional as well as the modern sense of the word: nobody with a reasonably happy affective life is going to spend years writing and collecting this sort of 'obsessive, reiterative' material".
		Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834-1900) was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman, a family man who counted among his many friends the celebrated adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton.
	www.amazon.fr /Erotomaniac-Secret-Henry-Spencer-Ashbee/dp/0306810646 (674 words)

	Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834 - 1900)
		Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 April 1834-29 July 1900) was a writer and bibliographer.
		Thanks to H Spencer Ashbee, one of the most famous of the nineteenth-century bibliophiles, we have a detailed record of many of the obscene works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		Henry Spencer Ashb ee (1884-1900) was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman, a family man who counted among his many friends the celebrated adventurer Sir Ric hard Francis Burton.
	www.jahsonic.com /Ashbee.html (812 words)

	New Statesman - Erotic heaven
		Gibson, a resident of southern Spain and the author of a fine biography of Federico GarcIa Lorca, was intrigued by Ashbee's Hispanic connections.
		Ashbee says nothing of his taste for erotic literature, let alone of his apparent enthusiasm for flagellation, as shown in his now acknowledged masterwork, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or Index of Books Worthy of Being Prohibited (1877), a bibliography of obscene literature.
		Despite the smokescreen of the diaries, it is clear that, having married into a German-Jewish merchant family, Ashbee used his trips to Europe to meet publishers of, and dealers in, erotica.
	www.newstatesman.com /200103120050 (856 words)

	Knitting Circle C R Ashbee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		C R Ashbee decided that country life was more suited to the work of the Guild and in 1902 he moved it to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire where an old silk mill was converted to workshops, and 150 people moved there from Whitechapel.
		C R Ashbee edited a shorter 7-volume version in 1938 which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the London Library.
		A compilation of lectures given by C R Ashbee in America while he was serving on the council of the National Trust.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /crashbee.html (879 words)

	Review of Erotomaniac
		Ashbee was also the author of three extensive bibliographies of erotica--Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, and Catena Librorum Tacendorum--published under the naughty pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi.
		This book and Ashbee's two later bibliographies, all sumptuously printed and sold quietly to avoid the law, were among the first to document the pornographic literature of the time.
		While Ashbee's authorship of these bibliographies was an open secret among those who collected pornography, Gibson spends the last half of his book arguing that Ashbee was also the pseudonymous author of the 4,000 page erotic classic My Secret Life.
	www.codeschaos.0catch.com /eroto2.html (704 words)

	Observer review: The Erotomaniac by Ian Gibson \| Review \| The Observer
		Born in 1834, Kentish Henry Ashbee was a successful City businessman, travel writer and family man. He left school at 16 and went straight into trade.
		The Oedipal threat posed by his son was the threat to all Victorianism: lifting the lid on the myth of prohibition that was, in fact, the protectionism of patriarchy.
		Ashbee's intention, like that of many dedicated pornographers throughout history, was to prove heterosexuality normal.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,442532,00.html (959 words)

	The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Unfortunately, Ashbee was a spotty diarist (and even worse speller), leaving gaps in his entries for periods of time as long as a year.
		Some entries are written in code to mask the acts of the admittedly happily married family man Ashbee claimed to be.
		So, if Ashbee wasn’t more than just a man with a careful bibliography of all his porn, which he kept in a separate residence from where he and his family lived, how is it that he came to be suspected of penning My Secret Life?
	www.citypaper.net /articles/120601/cs.bq.quicks7.shtml (295 words)

	Ian Gibson: The Erotomaniac
		Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834-1900) embodied this duality: he was a wealthy, cultured merchant who spent much of his time collecting, classifying and writing erotica.
		Ashbee’s life’s work was the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877), written under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi, a somewhat scatological anagram of the Latin words for ‘ash’ and ‘bee’.
		Understandably Ashbee was a man of his times, and to the modern reader he can come across as something of a racist, misogynistic snob with an unhealthy interest in flagellation and young girls.
	www.ivenus.com /culture/books/features/CU-FP-FullLength-wk56.asp (690 words)

	Amazon.com: Reviews for The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee: Books: Ian Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ashbee was no supporter of the suffragettes, but he liked the idea that women took pleasure in sex and could actively participate in it, ideas that were unfashionable or obscene at the time.
		In his own writing, Ashbee railed that "the English nation possesses an ultra-squeamishness and hyper-prudery peculiar to itself." He was furious that missionaries were trying to intrude this morality into societies where sexuality was more open.
		Ashbee produced his volumes under his scatological penname Pisanus Fraxi; he seems to have enjoyed rebuses of his name, and Pisanus Fraxi is an anagram of the Latin words for "ash" and "bee."
	www.amazon.com /Erotomaniac-Secret-Henry-Spencer-Ashbee/dp/customer-reviews/0306810646 (687 words)

	The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee - Ian Gibson
		Within the well-appointed chambers of Gray's Inn, Ashbee concealed an astonishingly vast collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of volumes strong." 285 pp., indexed, illustrated.
		A seemingly upstanding Victorian gentleman, Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834-1900), was a respected professional and a beloved provider to his family.
		However, unbeknownst to his well-heeled friends, Ashbee kept a room at Gray's Inn where he hoarded his burgeoning collection of erotic ephemera.
	www.biblio.com /books/25225045.html (233 words)

	A Book NOT by Frank Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		My theory (and that's all it is) is that the Introduction or Preface in which an editor says the MS was left with him for destruction etc., etc. may be true, and the editor was Ashbee, who also compiled the Index (very similar in its anality to the indices in his three vols.
		Ashbee certainly knew the printer/publisher August Brancart who did the work since there are references to Brancart in Ashbee's unpublished diaries.
		Ian Gibson's recent biography The Erotomaniac: the Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee also identifies Ashbee as Walter.
	www.oddbooks.co.uk /harris/secretlife.html (431 words)

	A Chronology of People in the History of Erotica (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ashbee once compared him to Marquis de Sade "without the intellect" (a scary thought).
		John Camden Hotten is born in London; son of William Hotten of Probus and Maria, daughter of Mr.
		Ashbee owned or had access to the majority of the books he listed in the bibliography.
	www.eroticabibliophile.com.cob-web.org:8888 /miscellaneous_people.php (4030 words)

	Henry Spencer Ashbee - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 de abril 1834 - 29 de julio 1900) Bibliófilo y escritor.
		Ashbee Nació en Southwark (Londres), casándose en Hamburgo (Alemania) en 1862.
		Ashbee Legó su colección al Museo Británico con la condición que los ejemplares eróticos fuesen aceptados junto con los ejemplares convencionales.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Spencer_Ashabee (405 words)

	Author uncovers Victorian sex diarist's identity \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		An acknowledged collector of pornography with a penchant for flagellation, Ashbee has drifted in and out of the frame since 1894, when six proofs of the manuscript of My Secret Life were printed in Amsterdam.
		But Gibson, who has studied the riddle for 20 years, believes he has proved that Ashbee is the true author.
		Ashbee is known to have compiled a library of erotica and kept a diary throughout his life.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,416558,00.html (723 words)

	Henry Spencer Ashbee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was an avid book collector, with perhaps the world's most extensive collections of Cervantes, and erotica.
		More recently, however, Ian Gibson's The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee (2001, ISBN 0-571-19619-5) provides a detailed review of circumstantial evidence that has again convinced some that Ashbee wrote My Secret Life, presumably weaving fantasy and anecdotes from friends in with his own real-life experiences.
		The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee by Ian Gibson, Cambridge, MA: Da Capa, 2001 (ISBN 0-571-19619-5)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Spencer_Ashbee (735 words)

	henry cecil spencer - Mixcat Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Henry, 88, of Shelbyville, passed away December 3, 2006, at...
		He was a native of Jefferson County, raised in Spencer County, a...
		William Henry Lytton Earle, Baron Dalling and Bulwer; Burgh, Hubert de; Burghley, William Cecil, 1st...
	www.mixcat.com /search.php?q=henry+cecil+spencer&websites=1&override= (395 words)

	History News Network
		In early middle age (his forties), and after a variety of occupations, ranging from cinema manager through insurance salesman to store detective, the writer Ronald Pearsall stumbled across a largely unexploited mine of social history and cleverly proceeded to work it to his advantage virtually for the rest of his life.
		Paul Fernando), as well as collectors such as Henry Spencer Ashbee, Pearsall began to study the subject in depth.
		The fruits of Pearsall's researches were packed into The Worm in the Bud: the world of Victorian sexuality, which was published in 1969 to some critical acclaim, as well as a good many scandalised reviews thanks to his policy of quoting extensively, and without recourse to asterisks, from the gamier examples of the breed.
	hnn.us /roundup/entries/17107.html (359 words)

	Amazon.com: "Henry Spencer": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		CHAPTER ONE The Making of an Erotomaniac (1834-77) Henry Spencer Ashbee was born on 21 April 1834 in Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London,...
		Then I met Agnes Macphail, then I met Henry Spencer.* And we decided it was a lovely Sunday, and that we'd all get out and have a look at the...
		Lord Henry Spencer, who, at nineteen, was already in possession of his title as a baron and in two years would come into...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Henry-Spencer (491 words)

	My Secret Life by Walter (The Sex Diary of a Victorian Gentleman) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		But biographer Ian Gibson claims it is the pen name of one Henry Spencer Ashbee, pictured left.
		Henry Spencer Ashbee born 21 Apr 1834 in Southwark, London to Robert and Frances Elizabeth Spencer
		Henry Spencer Ashbee dies on 29 Jul in Hawkhurst, Kent
	www.my-secret-life.com.cob-web.org:8888 (451 words)

	Book review: The Erotomaniac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The first 160 pages of this book are a biography of Ashbee, who wrote 3 bibliographies of erotica, a list of illustrations of
		Some of the evidence, such as quirks of Ashbee's language, is fairly convincing; others, such as "Walter"'s frequent references to what Gibson calls "the fantasy...
		The known facts of Ashbee's life are all pretty boring; he left a partial diary, but it's all surface events -- I went there, I met that person -- that don't offer any insight, and he did little more than sightsee on his trips around the world.
	www.amk.ca /books/h/Erotomaniac.html (220 words)

	Henry Spencer Ashbee Information
		He was an avid book collector, with perhaps the world's most extensive collection of Cervantes.
		The trustees exploited a loophole to destroy some of the erotica.
		Henry Spencer Ashbee, also known as "Pisanus Fraxi", Index of Forbidden Books (written 1880s as Index Librorum Prohibitorum), London: Sphere, 1969.
	www.bookrags.com /My_Secret_Life (527 words)

	Amazon.de: The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee: English Books: Ian Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Amazon.de: The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee: English Books: Ian Gibson
		Henry Spencer Ashbee (18341900) was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman, a family man who counted among his many friends the celebrated adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton.
		But he was a gentleman with a secretone so delicious that he rented a separate apartment to contain it.
	www.amazon.de /Erotomaniac-Secret-Henry-Spencer-Ashbee/dp/0306810646 (646 words)

	The Tower of Glass by Ivan Angelo « Book Review « ReadySteadyBook - a literary site
		It is the sordid tale of sexual predator Sir Henry Spencer Ashbee as he prowls the streets for girls (sex tourism gone askew):
		Ashbee and his toadies treat each girl as a literal conquest to be gained in a competition of sorts, made up from exuberance and masculinity.
		Little to they know that their first encounter with a young prostitute is the first in a series of dark events that thread through the whole narrative like the stitches of a well-bound book.
	www.readysteadybook.com /BookReview.aspx?isbn=1564783464 (1240 words)

	genre focus: smutty books
		This is typified by Frank Harris’s My Life and Loves (1923-7), in which he combined an exposition of his own intellectual excellence with detailed descriptions of his sex life, particularly a predilection for deflowering teenage girls.
		The recent biography of Henry Spencer Ashbee by Ian Gibson, entitled The Erotomaniac, details his bibliographic feat of compiling an index of all the dirty books he could get his hands on.
		The novelist and diarist Anaïs Nin famously dallied with both the American writer Henry Miller and his wife June, as portrayed in a 1990 film by Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward and Uma Thurman.
	www.ivenus.com /culture/books/genre/CU-FP-Genre-wk56.asp (998 words)

	Charles Robert Ashbee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A widely-illustrated suite of furniture was made by the Guild for the Grand Duke of Hess at Darmstadt to designs of M.
		Ashbee was the founder of the Survey of London.
		This page was last modified 15:49, 10 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Robert_Ashbee (431 words)

	Notes - Mudge - "How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision" - ...
		I explain my debt to his work more fully in the last section of this essay.
		My Secret Life can with assurance, although not with certainty, be attributed to Henry Spencer Ashbee, the Victorian bibliographer whose collection of pornography now forms the core of the famous Private Case Collection at the British Library.
		See Ian Gibson, The Erotomanic: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee.
	www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/sexuality/mudge/mudge_notes.html (2298 words)

	MUSEO DEL PRADO \| Imágenes del Quijote
		These exhibitions are the result of a close collaboration between the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Calcografía Nacional and The Hispanic Society of America.
		Among its many great treasures of Spanish culture, the Hispanic Society houses the large collection of prints illustrating Don Quixote formed in the late 19th century by the Englishman, Henry Spencer Ashbee.
		This collection forms the core of the exhibition which is further enriched by loans from the Biblioteca del Cigarral del Carmen in Toledo, the Biblioteca Nacional, the Real Academia Española, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and the collections of the Prado and Calcografía Nacional where the exhibitions are held.
	museoprado.mcu.es /msite_iquijote/index.html (463 words)

	Amazon.com: The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee: Books: Ian Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		by Ian Gibson "Henry Spencer Ashbee was born on 21 April 1834 in Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London, and baptized on 1 June following at Boughton under Blean, in..." (more)
		Key Phrases: residuary trust funds, erotica publishing, erotic bibliographies, Pisanus Fraxi, Henry Spencer, Don Quixote (more...
		Henry Spencer Ashbee was born on 21 April 1834 in Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London, and baptized on 1 June following at Boughton under Blean, in Kent.
	amazon.com /Erotomaniac-Secret-Henry-Spencer-Ashbee/dp/.../0306810646 (1614 words)

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