"My Secret Life is by far the most famous and the longest sexual
autobiography written in the nineteenth century. It has in it
invaluable material for social and cultural historians, literary
scholars, students of manners and morals-and it has more of what we
might call 'encounters' than any narrative ever penned in
English."
-From the Introduction by James Kincaid
The anonymous author of My Secret Life has never been identified.
Rumors have suggested he was a prominent scholar, the eccentric son
of an earl, even a titled woman. All we do know is evident in the
text- He was raised by servants and educated at a good boarding
school. His young adulthood was spent not in learning a trade, but
in exploring the world of sex and recording every encounter.
James Kincaid is Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the
University of Southern California and the author of Child-Loving-
The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture, as well as books on
Dickens, Trollope, and Tennyson.
Paul Sawyer is George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and
Director ofthe John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the
Disciplines at Cornell University. The author of Ruskin's Poetic
Argument- The Design of the Major Works, he is a noted scholar of
the Victorian age.
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