When curious and precious youth Sue espies her uncle pleasuring himself to a pamphlet of the lewdest kind in that singularly solo manner, the orphan's passions soon become inflamed. Awaiting his departure their luxurious penthouse she steals away to his library and liberates a like volume and between those pages her eyes are open to those forbidden pleasures of the flesh that have thus far eluded her. With Will and his man servant Charlie she will have her first taste of all a man has to offer and in so doing will give herself over her narrow aperture to both their lascivious intentions. When her uncle dies, and successfully remaining a virgin, Sue is taken into Madame Lucy Luce's house of debauchery, a city brothel, on the promise that she will grow wealthy while employing all the deeds and desires her lustful heart yearns to experience. So doing, she plays wanton host to aged but generous Lords, and desperate parochial priests of the most deviant designs. Finding herself ravaged to breaking point Madame Lucy suggests our heroin retire to the country for an overdue respite the sins that have sustained her. Here she will meet rich bachelor Mr Harry Hilton. But what will he make of her libidinous past? and will his Uncle Robert Slocum also partake in her charms when they are wed? All these and more are answered in this gloriously graphic ode to all this oral. Pseudonymously written in 1893 'Maid and Wife' is a fine example of Victorian Era trans-Atlantic erotica, replete with generous lashings of tongue and birch and every deed in between. Delicious.