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The memoirs of a triumphantly liberated eighteenth-century woman--of twentieth-century consciousness and aspirations--retrace her racy, reckless, and rambunctious course through seduction, prostitution, motherhood, piracy, and various liaisons with partners of both sexes
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Left as an infant on the doorstep of a grand English estate, Fanny is raised to young womanhood by Lord and Lady Bellars. A beautiful woman with a taste for literature, Fanny is ambitious to become the epic poet of her age - but her plans are dashed after she is ravished by her libertine adoptive father. Fleeing to London, Fanny meets up with idealistic witches and a band of highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. She embarks on a series of adventures that take her from a London brothel that caters to the literati, to a pirate ship on the high seas and beyond, teaching her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman.
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