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Memoirs Of Fanny Hill, by John Cleland
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Title: Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
Author: John Cleland
Release Date: May 2, 2008 [EBook #25305]
Language: English
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MEMOIRS OF FANNY HILL
By John Cleland
A new and genuine edition from the original text (London, 1749).
PARIS - ISIDORE LISEUX
Of this Edition, privately printed, there are 350 numbered copies, of which this is number 111.
LETTER THE FIRST
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 emerged, 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 tossed in, exerted more observation on the characters and manners of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, who, looking on a