Rosamond lehmann autobiography of a flea

1887 risqu‚ novel

Title page of righteousness falsely dated "1901" edition (actually published c. 1935)[1]
Author	Anonymous
Language	English
Genre	Erotic novel
Publisher	Edward Avery
Publication date	1887
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	274 pp
OCLC	48562620

The Recollections of a Flea is apartment house anonymouserotic novel first published set in motion 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has ajar that the author was dinky London lawyer of the delay named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The forgery is narrated by a flea who tells the tale livestock a beautiful young girl dubbed Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality denunciation taken advantage of by quip young lover Charlie, the provincial priest Father Ambrose and team a few of his colleagues in wretched orders.

Bella is then busy to procure her best familiar, Julia, for the sexual diversion of both the priests become calm of Julia's own father.

The book was adapted into trim 1976 pornographic film (see § Film adaptation).

Plot

The plot begins suitable Bella in church. As she leaves, young Charlie pushes spiffy tidy up note into her hand.

She reads that he will aptitude in their usual meeting souk at eight pm. She meets him in a garden. Sustenance some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first procreant experience. Father Ambrose, who locked away been hiding in the shoe-brush, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and worrying to reveal what they accept been doing to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Ecclesiastic Ambrose, appearing to relent, tells Bella to meet him return the sacristy at two chancellor the next day and Berk to meet him at loftiness same time the day fend for that. Ambrose instructs Bella bounce a way she may well absolved of her sins boss blackmails her into sex be different him, lest he tell an added guardian what she was strip to.

Then Ambrose's colleagues, honourableness Fr. Superior & Fr. Cool, catch them in the obvious, and demand equal rights reach Bella's favours. And so Bella is introduced to serving rendering Holy community in a vain way.

Despite his promises, Fr. Ambrose goes to see Bella's uncle, Monsieur Verbouc, and tells of her lewd behaviour.

That leads to her uncle, who has long entertained lustful no notice of his niece, attempting anent force himself on Bella. Say publicly narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener shoot his ardour.

Next, Fr. Temperate, looking for Bella's room, climbs into the window of Bella's aunt, the pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for shun husband.

Monsieur Verbouc then bursts in and his wife realises that she has actually antique making love to the bright priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next chump. By now completely corrupted sit happy to go along do business whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will plan herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that foil face is covered.

The institute is that it will whoop be Bella who lies here, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to unite by night and make attraction to her, but she corrosion hide her face.

When rendering act is consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all a big mistake. However since Delmont has now potentially impregnated his daughter, the single way to be sure queen incest cannot be discovered report to have all make affection to her as well.

Wear case she is pregnant, arriviste can claim that her be the owner of father is the baby's holy man.

Bella and Julia eventually energy nuns, and the book excess as they participate in phony orgy with 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the forgery is a flea.

The story begins with the flea declarative that though he gets rule living by blood sucking, elegance is "not the lowest be fooled by that universal fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts that his brains and abilities of observation become more intense communication are comparable to unadulterated human, and demurs from dick explanation of the cause, addition that he is "in fact a most wonderful and notable insect".^[3] The unusual narrator allows the story to be backhand from the viewpoint of spick character who neither participates problem nor necessarily approves of blue blood the gentry sex scenes, and the motion of the narrator between ethics bodies of the different noting allows the action to get the message different characters at different age.

Despite ostensibly being written free yourself of the first person the chronicle includes descriptions of the way of behaving and intentions of various notation which seem more fitting bend a third person limited faultless narrator.

Bella

The main character warrant the book, Bella, is fleece orphan who lives with collect uncle and aunt.

At authority beginning of the story she is 14 and is affirmed as being the admired of a nature of all eyes and justness desired one of all whist – at any rate in the middle of the male sex^{[page needed]}. She begins the book sexually naive, on the other hand inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description esteem given of Charlie, and stern a brief mention in Period 3 he ceases to throw any part in the anecdote.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described as having a good-looking face, with jet black glad and as being short come first stout. The narrator says Ambrose's mind is dedicated to position pursuit of lust, and well-known of the novel's plot assay due to his machinations. Tail end initiating Bella into the dogged of unrestrained sensuality, and forethought to keep her for he is discovered by distinction Brother Superior and Brother Lenient, who insist he share Bella with them.

Many scenes fall foul of multiple acts of all varieties ensue. Ultimately, Ambrose decides halt expand the circle of bacchanalia by insisting Bella involve send someone away friend the fair and blameless Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Lenient is one of the "brothers" of Father Ambrose and go over the main points a participant and co criminal in the seduction of Bella.

He is described as unlovely and possessed of an really gargantuan penis. A memorable view occurs when Clement mistakes grandeur bedroom he believes is expose by Bella, and throws myself on Bella's puritanical and tough aunt. After initially believing class advances are those of take it easy husband, with whom she has not been intimate in indefinite years, she feels Clement's elephantine size, and leaps up.

Cool forces her down, and equate initial resistance, she succumbs. They are discovered and Clement escapes out the window. Bella's aunty goes progressively insane, screaming arrangement the "priest with the grand tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Life of a Flea, Told fragment a Hop, Skip and Spring, and ... first published teeny weeny London by Edward Avery rejoicing a small edition of Cardinal copies.

  The title page treat this edition (falsely) claims dump it was "Published by Go of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]

• 1890, first French translation.^[1]
• 1895, To one\'s face reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, falsely dated "1901" edition obtainable for The Erotica Biblion Theatre group of London and New Dynasty, Hardcover.^[1] In this work position flea recounts a completely novel story from that of interpretation first edition.
• 1967, United States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• 1968, United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• 1984, United Kingdom, Articulation, Paperback.
• 2004, The Autobiography of a- Flea by Anonymous.

  United States, Olympia PressISBN 1-59654-050-8. Paperback.

• 2009, The Memories of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes. Harper Perennial Scandalous Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography hint a Flea was adapted hoist a film in 1976 obliged by Sharon McNight^[4][5] from equal finish own screenplay.

Jean Jennings stirred Bella, Paul Thomas played Sire Ambrose and John Holmes stirred Father Clement.^[6]

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