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Memoirs of a woman of pleasure (Fanny Hill) / by John Cleland

 
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dc.contributor.author Cleland, John, 1709-1789
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dc.date.created 1749
dc.date.issued 1994-03-19
dc.identifier ota:2052
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dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Fiction -- England -- 18th century
dc.subject.other Novels
dc.title Memoirs of a woman of pleasure (Fanny Hill) / by John Cleland
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<front>
<tPage>
<dTitle type=main>Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)</dTitle>
<byLine>by 
<dAuthor>John Cleland</dAuthor></byLine>
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<div1 type='Volume' n=V1>
<head>Letter The First</head>
<div2 type='chapter' n=C1.1>
<head>Part 1</head>
<p>Madam, 

<p>I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering 
your desires as indispensable orders.  Ungracious 
then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous 
stages of my life, out of which I emerg'd, at length, 
to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love, 
health, and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of 
youth, and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by 
great ease and affluence, to cultivate an understanding, 
naturally not a despicable one, and which had, even amidst 
the whirl of loose pleasures I had been tost in, exerted 
more observation on the characters and manners of the world 
than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, wh . . .
										

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