He wrote a number of erotic books published by the Erotika Biblion Society.
[1][2] He was the son of George Henry Bacchus of the New South Wales Artillery and his wife Mary Constance Annie Woolley, daughter of John Woolley.
[4] Bacchus married Isa Bowman, a former child-actress and friend of Lewis Carroll, in 1899.
[5] In 1899–1900 he published a fictionalised version of her life on the stage in Society, a magazine he was editing.
[2] Leonard Smithers commissioned a pornographic version which was published as The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906),[6][7][8][9] the first two volumes printed by Duringe of Paris and the last in London.