The Yellow Room or, Alice Darvell's Subjection A Tale of the Birch

Following the death of her aunt, beautiful Alice Darvell is sent to live with Sir Edward Bosmere, a stern disciplinarian and devotee of Venus Callipyge, who initiates her into the mysteries of the rod.

The Yellow Room was first published in 1891 and has been reprinted numerous times. The name of the author, M. Le Comte du Bouleau, is a pseudonym. Authorship is attributed to an English lawyer, Stanislas Matthew de Rhodès (1857-1932). He is also credited with writing Gynecocracy (1893) and The Petticoat Dominant (1898).