Jun 24, 2014

Mag 225

Tess's prompt this week involves a lady in repose on the greensward.   Egged on by Another Blogger, I'm reading "Fanny Hill"(*) - an eighteen century penny-dreadful about a country lass caught up in the Oldest Profession in the World . . . here she is, recuperating.


Sweet Summer, 1912, John William Waterhouse 

There was a young lady called Fanny
whose clients were Clarence and Danny,
Bert, Harry and Bill,
Jack, Arnold and Phil.
Her staying power - truly uncanny.


(*) Don't bother!  Just don't.  (But you can download it for £0.77p from A'zon to your Kindle, HaHa!)

13 comments:

  1. Love it! I so prefer the funny ones.

    Now please, Doc, any chance you can help with my technical problem just posted? You tend to be good at these things...?

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  2. And if you're a canny bargain hunter, you can download it for £0.00. You were fleeced, Doc....But seem to have caught the gist of the tale in your Mag...

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    1. There's a lot of spelling mistakes in the free edition, J. (Sounds like you've read it too?)

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    2. I have indeed - I wondered what people did for entertainment in 1749...Now I know!

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  3. Simplicity...sometimes helps...exhale.....

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  4. Good for Fanny
    She's certainly got staying power.
    She's been 'at it' for 102 years since 1912
    . . . and must be getting very sunburnt.

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    1. Bit before that Eddie - WIKI says 1748, and the free kindle version gives 1749 as a 'first published' date...and I think ALL versions have what one might call 'free spelling interpretations', 'cos I've used Amazon's 'look inside' feature - for comparison purposes only, you understand. LOL.

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    2. Yeah, sure. 3 or 4 pages of "Look Inside" and you know all you need to know. After that it's variations on a theme.

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    3. Thinking of date of painting and not Fanny - LOL
      I'll tell Aida about this!!

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  5. Heh Heh. She does look fair knackered though, doesn't she...!?

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  6. knackered is the word of the day for this gal!

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  7. Fanny could have been a nanny but that would have been less than dandy.

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