William Simpson Potter
William Simpson Potter (21 January 1805 – 16 January 1879) was a 19th-century English author.
according to this British Museum source, Potter is the author of the Victorian erotic novel, The Romance of Lust, (1873–1876) although the published novel lists its author as “Anonymous“.
The character ‘Mr Chambon’ in the anonymously authored The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism may be based on Potter, who was a friend of its publisher William Lazenby. In the book Mr Chambon resides at “in the Cornwall Mansions close to Baker Street Station”, while from about 1877 until his death Potter lived at Cornwall Residences, a now-demolished block of nondescript Victorian flats near the Station.[4]
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism, by the pseudonymous “Jack Saul“, is one of the first exclusively homosexual works of pornographic literature published in English.
Potter was the ‘compiler’ of another anonymous piece of the erotica A Letter from the East (1877)
The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences is a Victorian erotic novel written anonymously in four volumes during the years 1873–1876
Charles, the massively phallic hero, i initiated into sex by a married woman at the age of 15. He seduces his twosisters and is himself seduced by two governesses. He leaves school for the home of an uncle who sodomizes him. He seduces his aunt. The setting of Charles’ subsequent adventures moves from Paris to London.
(May be a compilation of other authors.)
Another perenial favourite was The Lustful Turk, first published in 1828, but well-known in men’s smoking rooms throughout the century. Its author is probably William Simpson Potter