I began these memoirs when about twenty-five years old, having from youth kept a diary of some sort, which perhaps from habit made me think of recording my inner and secret life. I began it for my amusement; when many years had been chronicled I tired of it and ceased. Some ten years afterwards I …
In 1903 as the existence of My Secret Life began to emerge on the clandestine erotica market, I met with the book’s author, Walter, in London’s oldest restaurant, Rules in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. My mission was to explore the diary keeping methods that he used in order to write My Secret Life. It was …
‘Walter’ was the anonymous author of the 19th century erotic memoir, My Secret Life. In this blog I will be sharing the clues to his identity that I have uncovered during the process of narrating and scoring the audiofilm of the complete unabridged text for the last ten years. To discover who he was would …