#452 - Harriet Marwood The English Governess Miles Underwood John Glassco School of Obedience Bill Ward
School of Obedience
by Ralph Wallace
illustrated by Bill Ward
Eros (Goldstripe) Publishing, Co.
1972
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Harriet Marwood: The English Governess
by Miles Underwood (John Glassco)
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School of Obedience
During the 1970s, Eros Publishing Company launched the Bizarre Books series, with the diagonal Eros Goldstripe ribbon on the covers. The series included male domination and female domination novels, usually illustrated by a gifted artist.
School of Obedience tells the tale of Mrs. Sitwell’s son Charles, an randy brute with a penchant for violent mischief and foul language. In the interest of his rehabilitation, she brings him to a training facility operated by Dr. Diane Moore.
From the back cover:
“Aided by Eva Hesse, a brawny and sexually insatiable man-hater, and Dorian, a musclebound orderly whose sodomistic tastes make him feared by the patients of Dr. Moore’s establishment, she begins her training, introducing the violent and virile Charles to all manner of sadistic torture and masculine subjugation.”
Dr. Moore inflicts a broad catalog of humiliating torments on her male clients, and achieves frequent success in their recovery from a lifestyle of abusive habits. She deliberately instills a fetish for leather and stiletto-heeled boots in Charles. In the last chapter, to further dispel his masculine aggressiveness, she forces him to dress in girlish undergarments and a wig.
Like the original paperback volume, the ebook has 16 ink sketches by Mr. Ward plus the color cover. The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version, which allows Acrobat Reader (and other programs) to read the story out loud.
Harriet Marwood: The English Governess
A Canadian poet, John Glassco wrote erotic prose under several pseudonyms. With an impressive modesty of language, he tells the story of how a brilliant young woman corrects and reforms a boisterous youth during her four-year tenure as his governess. Indeed, the restrained rhetoric of the prose reflects the restraint that the governess teaches, and which ultimately erupts into a sexual release that her pupil never anticipates.
Young Richard Lovel stumbles through adolescence with the problem of uncontrollable erections and an apparent inability to keep his hands off them. His wealthy father employs Harriet Marwood as Richard’s governess, giving her unlimited latitude to discipline the lad, conditioning him to observe appropriate conduct.
Although initially obstinate, Richard soon becomes enchanted with his lovely young governess, who ministers both serious punishments and tender touches. To enforce her focused discipline, she collects a wardrobe of punishment implements, including, crops, whips, canes, straps, martinets, bracelets, and a custom-fitted harness, all of the best leather. We learn that she enjoys administering the whippings Master Richard has earned, as he comes to anticipate her intimate attention.
To obtain absolute control of her charge, Miss Marwood relocates to Mr. Lovel’s country estate for a period of months. There she intensifies Richard’s discipline rituals, which the expert prose summarizes in these words:
“The regime initiated on that evening was continued at regular intervals throughout the holidays. Thus Richard, by turns scolded, beaten, and indulged, had his buttocks whipped to fiery heat and his orgasms induced by the skillful and persistent manipulations of the governess, and was obliged to undergo
the succession of emotional states evoked by such treatment.”
A second, parallel story describes lusty episodes in the life of Richard’s father, Arthur, and his cheerful mistress, Kate. Their adventurous amours occur both in London home where Richard and his governess reside and a villa in the south of France.
With skillful use of vocabulary and masterful crafting of sentences, Mr. Glassco simulates the formal, restrained diction of a racy Victorian novel set in the late 19th century. That he wrote this book in the middle of the 20th century provides additional evidence of his prodigious talent. Rich with erotic detail, readers will discover colorful passages they will read again and again.
The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version, which allows Acrobat Reader (and other programs) to read the story out loud.
historical note
In the mid-1950s, Mr. Glassco presented
his manuscript, Harriet Marwood, Governess
to Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press in Paris
for publication.
Mr. Girodias declined to publish it as
written, describing it as not having enough
sex in it. He advised Mr. Glassco to revise
it and add more sex scenes. Needing the
income, he did, using the pseudonym
Miles Underwood. (We believe this version
included episodes involving Arthur and
his mistress.)
Girodias published the revised version in
his Ophelia Press line in the 1950s. Olympia
Press later published it in its New Travelers
Companion Series as The English Governess.
The original, shorter manuscript was offered
to another publisher, possibly Citadel Press.
The other publisher never published it, but
transferred the manuscript and its rights
to Grove Press. Grove published the
original version in 1967.
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