Gershon Legman was the first to link "Walter" and Ashbee, in his introduction to the 1962 reprints of Ashbee's bibliographies, and the 1966 Grove Press edition of My Secret Life included an expanded version of that essay. He was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert on erotic books in his day. The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900). There is no scholarly consensus in favour of any of the candidates proposed. It was not until 1995 that the work in its entirety was published openly in the UK, by Arrow Books. In the USA it was finally published without censorship in 1966 by Grove Press, but in 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years' prison for producing a UK reprint. In 1932, for example, a New York publisher was arrested for issuing the first three volumes. In the twentieth century My Secret Life was pirated and reprinted in a number of abridged versions that were frequently suppressed for obscenity. The first edition was probably printed by Auguste Brancart, in an impression of only 25 copies.
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