Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

This book recounts the adventures of Francis (Fanny) Hill, an orphaned girl who moves from the country to the city, and falls into prostitution before being reunited with the first man she falls in love with and marrying him. The book is very much interested in Fanny's education--from a simple and naive country girl, she finds it to her advantage to adopt the airs of simplicity again before she can break free of the traps of prostitution and marry the man she loves. While she condemns most of her lifestyle in this retrospective book, she does depict her own pleasure pretty frankly.

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