SOURCE: "Fanny Hill," in John Cleland: Images of a Life, Columbia University Press, 1974, pp. 84-107.
In the following excerpt, Epstein discusses the possible sources for the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, including both classical and contemporary texts as well as Cleland's own experience with the social and ethical standards of mid-eighteenth-century England.
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