Fanny : being the true history of the adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones : a novel

Jong, Erica (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0453003826
ISBN: 9780453003827
Physical Description: print
505 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : New American Library, c1980.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

The Introduction to the Work or Bill of Fare to the Feast -- A short Description of my Childhood with particular Attention to the Suff'rings of my Step-Mother, Lady Bellars -- In which I meet my first Great Man, and learn the Truth of that Maxim: "'Tis easier to be a Great Man in one's Work than in one's Life" -- Of Gardening, Great Houses, the Curse of Fashion, Paradise Lost, a Family Supper with a Famous Visitor in Attendance, and the Foolish Curiosity of Virgins of Seventeen -- Of Flip-Flaps, Lollipops, Picklocks, Love-Darts, Pillicocks, and the Immortal Soul, together with some Warnings against Rakes, and some Observations upon the Erotick Proclivities of Poets -- Some Reflections upon Harmony, Order, and Reason, together with many surprizing Adventures which follow one upon the other, in rapid Succession -- Venus is introduced, with some pretty Writing; and we learn more of the Am'rous Dalliances of Lord Bellars than we, or our Heroine, would wish to know -- Containing the sundry Adventures of our Heroine in preparing her Escape, as well as many edifying Digressions upon Doweries, upon Love, upon the Beauties of the English Countryside, upon the Wisdom of Horses, upon the Necessity for Disguises, and, finally, upon the Preferability, at all Times, of being a Man rather than a Woman.

Find similar items by subject

Subject:

Young women Fiction
Prostitutes Fiction
Foundlings Fiction
London (England) Fiction

Genre:

Historical fiction.
Feminist fiction.
Erotic fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Currently available copies

8 out of 8 copies are currently available at PINES. (Show)
1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Athens Regional Library System. (Show)
1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Athens-Clarke County Library.