Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill]

London

Printed for G. Fenton [etc.]

1749

"but to me they [natural impressions of surprize and admiration] sensibly prov'd the power and full dominion of the sole passion of my heart over me, a passion in which soul and body were concenter'd, and left me no room for any other relish of life but love"

Here, however, under the wings of my sovereignly belov'd, did I flow the most delicious hours of my life; my Charles I had, and in him every thing my fond heart could wish or desire. He carried me to Plays, Operas, Masquerades, and every diversion of the Town, all which pleas'd me indeed, but pleas'd me infinitely the more for his being with me, and explaining every thing to me, and enjoying perhaps the natural impressions of surprize and admiration, which such sights, at the first never fail to excite in a Country Girl new to the delights of them: but to me they sensibly prov'd the power and full dominion of the sole passion of my [Page 139] heart over me, a passion in which soul and body were concenter'd, and left me no room for any other relish of life but love.
(pp. 138-9)

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At least 13 entries in ESTC (1749, 1750, 1755, 1760, 1766, 1770, 1776, 1781, 1784).

See John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 2 vols. (Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e Ralph Griffiths] in the Strand). <Link to ESTC>

Reading Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (New York: Modern Library, 2001).

Ruling Passion

09/01/2005