George Reginald Bacchus (1874–1945) was an English writer. He wrote a number of erotic books published by the Erotika Biblion Society. [1] [2]
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. [3] He was educated at Clifton College, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1892. [4]
Bacchus married Isa Bowman, a former child-actress and friend of Lewis Carroll, in 1899. [5] In 1899–1900 he published a fictionalised version of her life on the stage in Society, a magazine he was editing. [2] Leonard Smithers commissioned a pornographic version which was published as The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906), [6] [7] [8] [9] the first two volumes printed by Duringe of Paris and the last in London. [2]
George Reginald Bacchus (1874–1945) was an English writer. He wrote a number of erotic books published by the Erotika Biblion Society. [1] [2]
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. [3] He was educated at Clifton College, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1892. [4]
Bacchus married Isa Bowman, a former child-actress and friend of Lewis Carroll, in 1899. [5] In 1899–1900 he published a fictionalised version of her life on the stage in Society, a magazine he was editing. [2] Leonard Smithers commissioned a pornographic version which was published as The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906), [6] [7] [8] [9] the first two volumes printed by Duringe of Paris and the last in London. [2]