Fancy Girl

by Richard Manton

At the brink of the Civil War, a young mistress finds herself at Colonel Ashbee’s sprawling South Carolina plantation. Affectionately called “Miss Jolly,” she soon falls prey to the lascivious whims of the Colonel’s English mistress. For Miss Jolly, wartime becomes a life of forced labor, whippings, and demands for sexual favors — until she escapes to the North, and to an ironic surprise.

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 1990

About the author

The pseudonym Richard Manton first appeared in print in the early 1980's on spanking stories published in Janus Magazine. Shortly after in 1982 Grove Press began issuing the Grove Press Victorian Library, many of which were authored by Manton.

The most marked characteristic of Manton's work is that he used the same female characters repeatedly in different novels, no matter the setting or situation, e.g., Elaine Cox, Cara Jolly, Noreen. It is this use of the same female characters that has lead researchers to believe that the author behind the Manton name is Donald Thomas.

In the mid 1970's Thomas wrote several crime novels under the name Francis Selwyn. While these are not erotica, several of Manton's characters appear in them with the exact same names and characteristics as in the Manton books. There are some instances of corporal punishment in the novels as well.