Fanny : being the true history of the adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones : a novel / by Erica Jong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jong, Erica.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Prostitutes--Fiction.

Prostitutes.

Foundlings--Fiction.

Foundlings.

Genre:

Fiction.

Feminist fiction.

Historical fiction.

Erotic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Jong, Erica (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Aldrich, Lanning (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1, 2 & 3)

Physical Description:

505 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New American Library, [1980]

Contents:

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.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1, 2 & 3 have dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has ms. inscription by the author: "For Pia -- May we all be a heroick as Fanny one Day! With affection! Erica 19 Aug. '80".

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has slip from publisher with ms. note "with compliments Lanning Aldrich" laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Jong, Erica. Fanny.

ISBN:

0453003826

9780453003827

OCLC:

6250823