Venus in India

The Victorians may have attempted to show the world they were upright, strict and full of virtue but much of this thinking has been subverted by their erotic and pornographic writing. With a vast Empire to organise and rule Victorians authors also had a wealth of new locations in which to have their characters fornicate in their written erotic adventures. Venus in India, or Love adventures in Hindustan is a pornographic novel by the pseudonymous ‘Charles Devereaux’ and was first published in 1889. Written in the style of an autobiography of a British Army officer serving on the North West Frontier of India, it describes his erotic adventures with Lizzie Wilson and the three daughters of Colonel Selwyn while his wife Louie remains in England. Naturally enough he is able to accommodate both all their wishes and his own desires in a multitude of events and happenings.