Najsłynniejsza powieść autora wielu nowel i namiętnych romansów, którego nazwisko posłużyło do stworzenia pojęcia masochizmu". To właśnie w niej autor przyznał, że znajduje szczególną podnietę seksualną w cierpieniu, a tyrania, okrucieństwo i niewierność pięknej kobiety wywołuje i wzmaga u niego silną namiętność. Od czasów opublikowania tej powieści futro i pejcz należą do stałych rekwizytów literatury masochistycznej.
Lady Pokingham recounts the life of Beatrice, a headstrong and inquisitive young woman who delights in nothing more than giving over all her senses in being gamahuched, tribbed, taken, dominated, and chastised by man and woman in like manner. But it is in being married to Lord Crim-Con that she will experience the kind of sexual awakening that her experiences thus far had only eluded to. This rake of educates our heroin in many a manner of deed and device all the while crying out the most licentious of obscenities to her. Sharing her with friends, acquaintances and servant, Lord Crim-Con succeeds in corrupting Beatrice further as she partakes in menage-a-trois and much more. This is perhaps one of the more uncompromising tales to come from the pages of the notorious Victorian Erotic periodical The Pearl, anonymously written and published by William Lazenby between 1879-1880, and will sure to shock and delight in equal measure readers now as it did over one-hundred years ago.