Perhaps the most famous woman publisher of erotica in the nineteenth-century was Mary Wilson. Whether she published primarily for men or for women is not known, but she produced a wide variety of literature.

She was called by the famous "governess," Theresa Berkeley, "the reviver of erotic literature in the present century." Mary Wilson had a number of peculiarities, one of which was an intense dislike of sodomy in any form; she would allow no mention of it to appear in any of her books.

She also wrote an essay in a collection called "The Voluptuarian Cabinet"; the piece was called Adultery on the Part of Married Women, and Fornication on the Part of Old Maids and Widows defended by Mary Wilson, Spinster, With Plans for Promoting the same, Addressed to the Ladies of the Metropolis and its Environs.

The plan was for the establishment of a palatial brother for women only. It was to be a sanctuary "to which any lady of rank and fortune may subscribe, and to which she may repair incog; the married to commit what the world calls adultery, and the single to commit what at the tabernacle is termed fornication, or in a gentler phrase, to obey the dictates of all powerful Nature, by offering up a cheerful sacrifice to the God Priapus, the most ancient of deities." The plan, alas, never materialised.