Kurzbeschreibung
Raped on the Railway is a late-Victorian tale of flagellation and sexual violence. First published c. 1899 with the false imprint date 1894, it was issued, probably by Charles Carrington in Paris, on hand made paper in a limited edition of 300 copies with pictorial wrappers depicting a rape scene. The illustration is signed A. Lambrecht. Adolphe Lambrecht illustrated Carrington’s translation of the flagellation classic, The Mysteries of Verbena House (1882): Les Mystères de la Maison de la Verveine (1901). A second edition of Raped on the Railway was issued c. 1904. It was also backdated to 1894 but printed on ordinary paper and printed in a limited edition of 500 copies. The author of the text is unknown. Most of the poems, however, are lifted from Aleister Crowley’s White Stains, which was published clandestinely, most probably by Leonard Smithers, in 1898.Verse excerpts are from Crowley’s ‘Rondels’ [ I ], ‘Mathilde,’ ‘Ode to Venus Callipyge,’ and ‘Ad Lydiam, Ut Secum A Marito Fugeret’ [ 5 ]. White Stains and The Mysteries of Verbena House are available from Birchgrove Press.
