Ronald Pearsall

Ronald Joseph Pearsall (20 October 1927 – 27 September 2005) was an English writer whose scope included children's stories, pornography and fishing. Quotes The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality (1969) People do not alter much in a hundred years; the difference lies in the accommodation to the age in which they live, in their susceptibility to outside forces. Introduction Germany was the stud of nineteenth-century monarchy. Pt. 1, ch. 1 Some degree of repression is a condition of the human species, though unfashionable today in a country swinging its way if not to perdition at least to a mindless vacuity. Pt. 2, ch. 9 Scratch a Victorian personage, be it ever so lightly, and we are sure to find something nasty under the façade. Pt. 2, ch. 9 External links