Charles d’Espinay

Charles d’Espinay (c. 1531, château d’Espinay – September 1591, Epiniac) was a French cleric, bishop and poet. He is most notable for his sonnets, particularly his erotic “Sonnets amoureux” published in 1559-1560 – he was a contemporary and disciple of Pierre de Ronsard.[1]

He was the younger son of Guy III d’Espinay († 1551) and his wife Louise de Goulaine. His elder brother Jean II († 1591) became a marquis in 1575 and continued the family line. They also had other siblings – Philippine, who became abbess of abbaye Saint-Georges de Rennes (1572-1583), and Louis d’Espinay († 1600), commendatory to abbaye Notre-Dame du Tronchet (1558-1567) before marrying and becoming lord of Yvigniac. Louis’ son Jean d’Espinay became abbot commendatory to the abbaye de Saint-Méen (1592-1604).

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Nicolas Chorier

Nicolas Chorier (September 1, 1612 – August 14, 1692) was a French lawyer, writer, and historian. He is known especially for his historical works on Dauphiné, as well as his erotic dialogue called The School of Women, or The Seven Flirtatious Encounters of Aloisia (French: L’Academie des dames, ou les Sept entretiens galants d’Aloisia). He […]

Paul Little (author)

Paul Hugo Little (1915–1987) was an American pulp fiction writer and author of the historical novels forming the Windhaven series and The Hawk and the Dove series under the pen names Marie de Jourlet and Leigh Franklin James respectively. He was the author of 700 historical fiction, erotica and romance novels mostly published under pseudonyms.[1] […]

Seabury Quinn

Seabury Grandin Quinn (also known as Jerome Burke; December 1889 – 24 December 1969) was a government lawyer, journalist, and an American pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales.[1] He was born and lived in Washington, D.C. In 1910. He graduated from the […]

Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His acclaimed first novel, Lanark (1981), written over almost 30 years, was described by The Guardian as “one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction.”[1] Poor Things (1992) won him a Whitbread Novel Award[2] and Guardian Fiction Prize.[3] He calls himself a civic nationalist[4] […]

Mathilde Madden

Mathilde Madden, pen name of Mathilda Gregory, is a British erotica author and Guardian journalist.[1] Her novel Equal Opportunities is about a female sadist who sexually dominates a man left wheelchair bound after an accident. Her other novels include Mad About the Boy, about women paying men for sex and Peep Show, about a female […]

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