This might interest you since you mentioned a biography:

Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910
by Samuel Clemens

it's a series of letters back and forth about the club of girls that Mark Twain kept company with.

More research side of things:


Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Literature
by James R. Kincaid


Explores how society got to where we are now with children.


Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting
by James R. Kincaid

Explains societies weird obsession with the sexual exploitation of children. While society chooses to not focus on the whole child and their specific needs and issues.


I would probably read the Kincaid books in that order. The second is potentially a rather heavy read. If memory serves.


I'm fairly certain someone around here can suggest scientific papers.


also if memory serves old issues of the VoA E-zine should have sources cited (I could be wrong.) if they quote a specific piece of data.


Also my advice is when in doubt Ping GC and keep asking questions.


I won't speak for the GC mods and administration staff but GL garden used to be a resource page and atm is currently not usable when/if it will be usable again is anyone's guess.