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Bullough, Vern L.. (2000) "Who wrote my secret life? An evaluation of possibilities and a tentative suggestion". Sexuality & Culture 4 (1): 37–60. doi:10.1007/s12119-000-1011-y.
Hawthorne, M. (2001). Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. (unrelated to MSL; helpful for ref. to August Brancart's role as publisher)
Marcus, Steven. (1964). The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Ninetheenth-Century England. Basic Books, Inc., NY. ISBN: 66-19926
To be read:
Gertzman, Jay A. Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. ISBN 0812217985 - HQ472.U6 G47 1999
Gibson, I. (2001). The erotomaniac: The secret life of Henry Spencer Ashbee. London: Faber.
Green, Jonathon; Karolides, Nicholas J., eds. (2005). The encyclopedia of censorship. Facts on File library of world history. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 0816044643. Z657 .G73 1990
Kearney, Patrick J. (1982). A history of erotic literature. Parragon. ISBN 1858131987. Unavailable via FSU
KRONHAUSEN, E. and KRONHAUSEN, P. (1967). Walter. The English Casanova: A Presentation of his Unique Memoirs'My Secret Life'. Polybooks, London. Unavailable via FSU
Reade, R. S. (1936). Registrum librorum eroticorum. London, Priv. print. for subscribers. Unavailable via FSU
Best, G., Thomas, D., Banks, J. A., & Irwin, M. (1969). "My secret life": Theme and variations. Victorian Studies, 13(2), 204-215.
Hall, D. E. (1999). “Body fluid desire: My Secret Life.” Nineteenth-Century Prose, 26(1), 118-140.
Hall, D. E. (Fall 2008). Teaching Victorian Pornography: Hermeneutics and Sexuality. Victorian Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 19-25
Legman, G. (1964). The horn book: Studies in erotic folklore and bibliography. New Hyde Park, N.Y: University Books. HQ458 .L4 1964
Lutz, Deborah. "The secret rooms of My Secret Life." English Studies in Canada 31.1 (2005): 118+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 23 Jan. 2012.
Meckier, J. (1978). “Never in Lapland: A clue to the nature of ‘my secret life’.” English Language Notes, 16(2), 168.
Morrison, R. (2006). "Recherche eroticisms: 'my secret life' as parody.” CEA CRITIC, 68(3), 16-32. Unavailable via FSU
Orford, J. (1978). “Hypersexuality: implications for a theory of dependence.” British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs, 73: 299–310. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1978.tb00157.x
Pattinson, J. P. (2002). “The man who was walter.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 30(1), 19-40.
Donald Thomas. (1969) "My Secret Life": The Trial at Leeds. Victorian Studies,Vol. 12, No. 4 (Jun., 1969), pp. 448-451