Fanny Hill
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Excerpt
Volume I
Madam,
Sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as
indispensible 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, who looking on all
thought or reflexion as their capital enemy, keep it at as great a distance as
they can, or destroy it without mercy.
Hating, as I mortally do, all long unnecessary prefaces, I shall give you good
quarter in this, and use no farther apology, than to prepare you for seeing the
loose part of my life, wro ... read full excerpt from Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure ebook
