Lesbia Brandon is an erotic novel written by Algernon Charles Swinburne between 1859 and 1868, but suppressed because it was considered pornographic in its day. It was originally illustrated by Simeon Solomon.Peter Horne and Reina Lewis, Outlooks: Lesbian and gay sexualities and visual cultures, Routledge, 1996, , p. 70.
Titled and published Never completed or even given a title by its author, the novel gained one from T. J. Wise.A Swinburne Library, 1927. It eventually appeared in print for the first time in 1952, published by British Book Center and edited by Randolph Hughes.The New York Times, "A Touch of Swinburne; LESBIA BRANDON", November 30, 1952.
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George Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman, Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume 1, Taylor & Francis, 2000, , p. 263 Jeremy Mitchell, "Swinburne – The Disappointed Protagonist", Yale French Studies, No. 35, The House of Sade (1965), pp. 81–88 Yopie Prins, Victorian Sappho, Princeton University Press, 1999, , pp. 123–125 Arthur Symons, Dramatis personae, Ayer Publishing, 1971, , p. 251 John Vincent, "Flogging is fundamental: applications of birch in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon", Novel gazing: queer readings in fiction, ed. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University Press, 1997, , pp. 269–298