No, I didnt know this autor , though that "Eloge de le fessée" (one of his oeuvres) tells me something ...
Here is a summary of "Cruelle Zélande" :
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Stella Mac Leod, a prude wife of a Victorian English officer, accompanied her husband to New Zealand. As soon as they landed, they were attacked by a Maori tribe and the young woman was soon introduced against her will to the manners of the men and women of the tribe. Ignoring all sexual frustration, the savages turn her into a hostage of love and reveal her voluptuous nature. Cruel Zealand, an account of the discovery of sexual pleasures and unfettered enjoyment by a young Puritan lady, has become a classic of erotic literature. With its humour between leather and flesh, the contrast of its volcanic ecology and its mild and humid climate, with its Virginia-free sides, and the triumph of morality, the novel has more than one original trait [...], but none so much as this one: an erotic crowned by Queen Victoria. Yves Florenne, Le Monde.