Michael Mason

Michael Mason is the author of The Making of Victorian Sexuality.

In the LRB Archive:

• A Little Pickle for the Husband · 1 April 1999

  • Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton

• Rational and Companionate, or Carnal and Impulsive? · 7 January 1999

  • What is Love? Richard Carlile’s Philosophy of Sex edited by M.L. Bush

• Larkin was right, more or less · 5 June 1997

  • Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain 1860-1940 by Simon Szreter

• Downland Maniacs · 5 October 1995

  • The Village that Died for England by Patrick Wright

• Coats of Every Cut · 9 June 1994

  • Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society by Norman Gash

• Questions of Chic · 19 August 1993

  • City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London by Judith Walkowitz
  • Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in 19th-century Married Life by James Hammerton
  • Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class edited by Kristine Ottersen Garrigan

• Preventive Intercourse · 22 October 1992

  • Predicaments of Love by Miriam Benn
  • Love in the Time of Victoria by Françoise Barret-Ducrocq, translated by John Howe

• Oedipal Wrecks · 26 March 1992

  • Fates Worse than Death by Kurt Vonnegut

• Do women like sex? · 8 November 1990

  • Making sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur

• Denying Dolores · 11 October 1990

  • Children’s Sexual Encounters with Adults by C.K. Li, D.J. West and T.P. Woodhouse
  • Child Pornography: An Investigation by Tim Tate

• Victorian Consumers · 16 February 1989

  • The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 by F.M.L. Thompson
  • Victorian Things by Asa Briggs

• Cleveland · 10 November 1988

  • Report of the Inquiry into Child Abuse in Cleveland 1987 by Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
  • When Salem came to the Boro by Stuart Bell
  • The Last Taboo by Gay Search
  • Unofficial Secrets: Child Sexual Abuse – The Cleveland Case by Beatrix Campbell

• Rogue Socialists · 1 September 1988

  • Francis Place, 1771-1854: The Life of a Remarkable Radical by Dudley Miles
  • Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 by Iain McCalman

• All Woman · 23 May 1985

  • ‘Men’: A Documentary by Anna Ford
  • Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland, edited by Peter Sabor

• Former Lovers · 6 September 1984

  • The Bourgeois Experience. Victoria to Freud Vol. I: Education of the Senses by Peter Gay
  • Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd by Polly Longsworth
  • The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds edited by Phyllis Grosskurth

• Thought Control · 15 March 1984

  • Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility by Germaine Greer

• Taking Darwin in · 16 February 1984

  • Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and 19th-Century Fiction by Gillian Beer

• Vicarious Sages · 3 November 1983

  • John Forster: A Literary Life by James Davies
  • Mr George Eliot: A Biography of George Henry Lewes by David Williams
  • Johnnie Cross by Terence de Vere White

• O cruel! · 16 June 1983

  • Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson
  • W.H. Hudson: A Biography by Ruth Tomalin

• Tons of Sums · 16 September 1982

  • Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer by Anthony Hyman

• Conservative Chic · 6 May 1982

  • The Politics of Culture and Other Essays by Roger Scruton

• George Eliot, Joyce and Cambridge · 2 April 1981

• Banality and Anxiety · 19 March 1981

  • Thirty Seconds by Michael Arlen
  • The Crystal Bucket by Clive James
  • The Message of Television by Roger Silverstone

• MacInnes’s London · 16 October 1980

  • City of Spades Mr Love and Mr Justice Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes

• Two Visits to the Dentist · 5 June 1980

  • In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

• Michael Mason writes about the debate in London University on whether Anthony Blunt should keep his emeritus chair · 20 March 1980

• Vonnekit · 7 February 1980

  • Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

• Philip Roth’s House of Fiction · 6 December 1979

  • The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

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