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<front>
<tPage>
<dTitle type=main>Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)</dTitle>
<byLine>by
<dAuthor>John Cleland</dAuthor></byLine>
</tPage>
</front>
<body>
<div1 type='Volume' n=V1>
<head>Letter The First</head>
<div2 type='chapter' n=C1.1>
<head>Part 1</head>
<p>Madam,
<p>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 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, wh . . .