George Reginald Bacchus (1874–1945) was an English writer. He wrote a number of erotic books published by the Erotika Biblion Society.Patrick J. Kearney, A history of erotic literature, Parragon, 1982, , pp.153-154,181James G. Nelson, Peter Mendes, Publisher to the decadents: Leonard Smithers in the careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, Penn State Press, 2000, , p.291
Life He was the son of George Henry Bacchus of the New South Wales Artillery and his wife Mary Constance Annie Woolley, daughter of John Woolley. He was educated at Clifton College, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1892.
Bacchus married Isa Bowman, a former child-actress and friend of Lewis Carroll, in 1899.Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green, The Letters of Lewis Carroll: 1886-1898, Volume 2 of The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Macmillan, 1979, , p.710 In 1899–1900 he published a fictionalised version of her life on the stage in Society, a magazine he was editing. Leonard Smithers commissioned a pornographic version which was published as The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906),Frank A. Hoffmann, Analytical survey of Anglo-American traditional erotica, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1973, , p.34Tracy C. Davis, "The Actress in Victorian Pornography", Theatre Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, Performance in Context (Oct., 1989), pp. 294-315 Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, Victorian scandals: representations of gender and class, Ohio University Press, 1992, , pp.113,131 the first two volumes printed by Duringe of Paris and the last in London.
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External links Text of The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (1902) Text of The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (1902) on Internet Archive.