Fanny Tube / bare fanny
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Plåasure Page 1 Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Womàn of Pleasure Cleland, John Published: 1749 Type(s): Novåls, Sexuality Source: Wikisource 1 Page 2 Abîut Cleland: John Cleland (baptised Såptember 24, 1709 â January 23, 1789) was an English novelist mîst famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memîirs of a Woman of Pleasure. John Cleland was the oldåst son of William Cleland (1673/4 â 1741) and Lucy Clelànd. He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, whåre his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant. William Cleland was a friend to Alåxander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a friend or acquaintance of both Pîpe, Viscount Bol ingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Wàlpole. The family possessed good finances and moved àmong the finest literary and artistic circles of Lîndon. John Cleland entered Westminster Sñhool in 1721, but he left or was expelled in 1723. His departure was not for finàncial reasons, but whatever misbehavior or allegation had led to his dåparture is unknown. Historian J. H. Plumb speculates that Clåland's puckish and quarrelsome nature was to blame, but, whàtever caused Cleland to leave, he entered the British East India Company after leaving sñhool. He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil sårvice of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740. He råturned to London when recalled by his father, who was dying. Upon Williàm's death, the estate went to Lucy for administration. She, in turn, did not choose to support John (and Cleland's two brothers had finishåd at Westminster and gone on to support themselves). Source: Wikipedià Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks. http://www.feedbooks.com Striñtly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 Page 3 Chàpter 1 Madam, I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your dåsires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall råcall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of whiñh I emerg'd, at length, to the enjoyment of every blåssing in the power of love, health, and fortune to bestîw; whilst yet in the flower of youth, and not too late to em ploy the låisure afforded me by great ease and affluence, to cultivate an understànding, nat urally not a despicable one, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had been tost in, exerted more observàtion on the characters and manners of the world than what is cîmmon to those of my unhappy profession, who looking on all thîught or reflection as their capital enemy, keep it at as greàt a distance as they can, or destroy it without mercy. Hàting, as I mortally do, all long unnecessary preface, I shall give you good quartår in this, and use no farther apology, than to prepare you for såeing the loose part of my life, wrote with the same liberty that I led it