Regarding an alleged attempt by Fanny Fern to seduce Jesse Haney. Transcription: am sure believe that the infernal woman [Fanny Fern], like Rousseau's nauseous 'mamma,' believes that tie the only one sure to attach a man to her interests, wherefore she wished to knit it with [Jesse] Haney. He thinks she would have gone the entire beast; I, at first supposing she might only have desired to have him commit himself, henceforth to hold his supposed attempt in terror over him, as binding him to her side. But when her whole character is considered I incline to think his darker estimate the right on
Regarding an alleged attempt by Fanny Fern to seduce Jesse Haney. Transcription: am sure believe that the infernal woman [Fanny Fern], like Rousseau's nauseous 'mamma,' believes that tie the only one sure to attach a man to her interests, wherefore she wished to knit it with [Jesse] Haney. He thinks she would have gone the entire beast; I, at first supposing she might only have desired to have him commit himself, henceforth to hold his supposed attempt in terror over him, as binding him to her side. But when her whole character is considered I incline to think his darker estimate the right one. Judging basely but in some things shrewdly she'd have known that a man so situated could not have been relied upon, would suppose he'd owe her a grudge from baffled lust. And her role was, is to make partisans, especially to win them from Jim [Parton]'s side. No! like the strumpet in 'Lazarille' she would have paid her partner in kind, before saddling him with his burthen. How far Haney was from wanting to don it I know. I've seen him resent and reject her familiarities as decidedly as could be done without coming to an open rupture, and they have formed a matter of conversation between us. And the woman is lustful besides being wicked in other kind. Her talk glances towards her physical capacities for satisfying appetite, her habitual low-necked exposure of her bosom and display of her feet, all invite Phallus-worship. She has again and again hinted chambering and connu- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 12, June 5, 1859 . 5 June 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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