Out of the aforesaid collection, presenting an amazing account which was first published in 1888, My Secret Life, by “Walter”, is the memoir of a gentleman. Free black porn 3. The more I read it, the more marvelous it seemed. On the other hand, Steven Marcus, in his influential The Other Victorians (1966), concluded that the balance of known facts was against Legman’s “shrewd and ingenious guess.” Also unconvinced were Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen in their detailed study of My Secret Life, Walter, the English Casanova (1967). That barrister, William Overend QC, was a childhood friend of Stanley. At length I came to the conclusion, knowing his idiosyncrasy well, that his fear was only lest anyone should know who the writer was; and feeling that it would be sinful to destroy such a history. 3. Gershon Legman was the first to link “Walter” and Ashbee, in his introduction to the 1962 reprints of Ashbee’s bibliographies, and the 1966 Grove Press edition of My Secret Life included an expanded version of that essay.
