Rosa Coote

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Rosa Coote is a fictional dominatrix appearing as a stock character in a number of works of Victorian erotica, including The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant (as the notional author) by William Dugdale[1][2][3] and "Letters to a Lady Friend" or "Miss Coote's Confession" in The Pearl.[4][5][6] Henry Spencer Ashbee writes of The Convent School that "The book is not altogether badly written; no part of the narrative however is attractive".[1]

The surname "Coote" is taken from the historical

flogging scandal in 1815:[7][8] in "Miss Coote's Confession" the general is stated to be Rosa Coote's grandfather.[4] The character is probably based on the real-life Theresa Berkley who ran a brothel in Soho in the 1830s.[9]

The character reappears in

Pollyanna Grows Up).[2][10][11]

References

  1. ^ a b Henry Spencer Ashbee (as Pisanus Fraxi), "Catena librorum tacendorum", 1885, p.244
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-60473-213-X
    , p.179
  3. ISBN 1-4128-0819-7
    , p.76
  4. ^ a b Henry Spencer Ashbee (as Pisanus Fraxi), "Catena librorum tacendorum", 1885, p.344
  5. ISBN 1-56023-640-X
    , p.60
  6. ISBN 1-4039-6350-9
    , pp.24,27
  7. ISBN 0-09-139240-3
    , pp.236-7
  8. ISBN 0-436-52101-6
    , p.499
  9. ^ Iwan Bloch, William H Forstern, "Sexual life in England, past and present", F. Aldor, 1938, pp.353,361
  10. ^ Maryanne Rhett, "The Graphic Novel and the World History Classroom", World History Connected, vol.4 no.2 (Feb. 2007)
  11. ISBN 88-87570-89-2
    , p.110

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