Venus in India
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Venus in India, or Love adventures in Hindustan is a pornographic novel by "Charles Devereaux" (variously spelled in the different editions) published by Auguste Brancart
Auguste Brancart
August or Auguste Brancart was a Belgian publisher of pornographic literature, credited with the first publication of My Secret Life. He published translations of English pornography into French and vice versa for English publishers such as Edward Avery...

 in Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

 in 1889. It purports to be the autobiography of a British Army officer serving on the North West Frontier of India, describing his erotic adventures with Lizzie Wilson and the three daughters of Colonel Selwyn. His wife Louie remains in England. He sometimes refers to Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic....

's Mademoiselle de Maupin during the narrative which is set during the third Afghan War. It is divided into two volumes and the content of a third volume is occasionally referred to in the text but this was never published.

Further reading

  • Devereaux, Charles (1969) Venus in India. London: Sphere Books (with an introduction by Ronald Pearsall
    Ronald Pearsall
    Ronald Joseph Pearsall, was a writer whose scope included children's stories, pornography and fishing. - Biography :...

    )
  • Devereaux, Charles (1914) Vénus dans l'Inde: ou, aventures d'amour dans l'Hindoustan; par le Capt. C. Dévereaux; première traduction complète en français par un Paria de Pondichéry. Bombay
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