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Sexy writing started on a tiger skin
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040711
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As co-organiser of the Romantic Novelists' Association conference mentioned in your report about sexually graphic books for women (News, July 4), may I say that sexy writing is not new. Nor are we worried about it.
Hot stuff has been around the drawing room since at least 1907 when Elinor Glyn wrote Three Weeks. The headmaster of Eton banned it - without having read it, naturally. And Edward VII, that great moralist, forbade any mention of it in his presence. A highlight of this year's conference was the novelist Elizabeth Hawksley reading aloud Glyn's famous Tiger Skin Incident.
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