The Cremorne was a pornographic magazine published by William Lazenby

William Lazenby

William Lazenby was an English publisher of pornography active in the 1870s and 1880s. He used the aliases Duncan Cameron and Thomas Judd...

 in London

London

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 in 1882 (but falsely backdated to 1851). The title alludes to Cremorne Gardens

Cremorne Gardens

Cremorne Gardens was the name of two pleasure gardens established in England and Australia in the mid 19th century by James Ellis .*Cremorne Gardens, London was established in 1846 on the banks of the Thames at Chelsea...

 which had by that time become a haunt of prostitutes. The magazine was a sequel to The Pearl.

The story "The Secret Life of Linda Brent" is an obscene parody of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", by Harriet Jacobs writing under the pseudonym of Linda Brent. It is in the same vein as "My Grandmother's Tale", previously published in The Pearl.