The Pearl is a collection of erotic tales, rhymes, songs and parodies in magazine form that were published in London between 1879 to 1880, when they were forced to shut down by the authorities for publishing rude and obscene literature.
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Rhymes, songs and parodies
The Pearl published limericks under the label 'Nursery Rhymes'. The heading is facetious, as their content would certainly not be appropriate for the nursery. The following example was included in The Pearl, Issue Nº 1, July 1879.
- There was a young man from Peru,
- Who had nothing whatever to do;
- So he took out his carrot
- And buggered his parrot,
- And sent the result to the zoo.
Characters featured
- Rosa Coote is a character from the magazine. She is a boarder at a school where most of the mistresses and girls spend their off-duty hours beating and whipping each other. When she leaves school, she sets up house in a suburb of London and continues beating and whipping her friends and servants.
References in popular culture
- In the comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I, Rosa Coote appears in the second chapter, where the students at her school are being raped by Hawley Griffin.
See also
References
- "The Pearl", Anonymous, Ballantine Books, (1996) ISBN 0-345-41004-1
