1905 advertisement in "Le Rire" for bibliophiles of all tastes in the area of aberrant and deviant sex.

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the production of a wide range of flagellant material in England. A book held by one writer to be "the most typical" of all the late nineteenth century English flagellant novels was a book called "The Mysteries of Verbena House: or, Miss Bellasis birched for thieving." The author signed himself simply Etonensis. A critic remarked - "After wading through so many dull, insipid, if not absolutely repulsive books on the subject, it is a relief to alight at last upon one which tact and clever writing render almost readable."